Brian,

Friendly,
If the DFG isn’t proposing these closures or come up with them then who did? It wasn’t the radicals, no one listens to them. Radical environmentalists are by far not the only ones supporting these closures. Radical environmentalists are few and far between. We think they are everywhere because they get the media coverage because they are radical. They know how to get their voices heard. To me it seems they are usually jobless uneducated people with too much idle time. Spending their time searching for conspiracy theories to give them credibility or by not looking at the issue holistically. Their beliefs are usually nonsense and unsound. Their beliefs don't stand up in the peer review journal world of good science. These people have no real power to change things because they have virtually no support from the lay community or the scientific community. Closures are not always radical ideas. Most Californian’s want some closures. They voted for something big to be done because something big is happening to the planets resources. Radical environmentalists are not going to stop, your right, because there are always going to be people looking for conspiracy theories. Ex., we never landed on the moon, aliens killed JFK, Elvis is still alive, all genetically engineered foods are bad, legal sport hunting and fishing is cruel and bad for all wildlife. None of these are true or make any sense scientifically. They will always allow legal fishing and hunting because many laws, theories, and concepts that show it is mostly not harmful at all and can be a helpful tool. Radicals don’t run the country. Relatively very few environmentalists are radicals. More and more people are becoming environmentalists because they don’t like how modern culture is becoming further and further detached from the land.
Now I've got to go catch a plane for Wisconsin so I can catch me some salmon and pike.

Mike