The impact of sea lion and seal predation on listed Northwest salmon and steelhead stocks was the subject of a US House subcommittee hearing, which saw testimony from tribal leaders and the American Sportfishing Association.

It seems like the idea’s been around long enough to just about qualify for old-growth status, but a bill to designate select public woods and waters on the Olympic Peninsula as wilderness or wild and scenic again advanced after a US Senate subcommittee hearing this week.