I recently made a trip through the Columbia Gorge. The real gorge down between Washougal and John Day dam area, not that concert place kids.
Most of the signs on HWY 14 for rivers and creeks are gone. Hamilton, Hardy, Duncan, Dog, etc No signs. I've also noticed here in King county less & less signage for streams over the years.
Is it just a $$ thing? Or are the authorities afraid if people know the stream name they'll actually fish it? Or they'll demand that someone actually patrols it? Don't get me started on that one.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I see this as one more example of the dumbing down of America. Place names, including streams and lakes are part of history. So kids probably don't give a shit, but then they don't know where the hell that creek that's named after their great-grandpa is...even if it's just 10 miles down the road.
Google maps is not great about stream names, but they are better than our DOT now. Google actually improved that recently.
Rant over. FWI, I used to see steelhead in some of these little trickles.
Most of the signs on HWY 14 for rivers and creeks are gone. Hamilton, Hardy, Duncan, Dog, etc No signs. I've also noticed here in King county less & less signage for streams over the years.
Is it just a $$ thing? Or are the authorities afraid if people know the stream name they'll actually fish it? Or they'll demand that someone actually patrols it? Don't get me started on that one.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I see this as one more example of the dumbing down of America. Place names, including streams and lakes are part of history. So kids probably don't give a shit, but then they don't know where the hell that creek that's named after their great-grandpa is...even if it's just 10 miles down the road.
Google maps is not great about stream names, but they are better than our DOT now. Google actually improved that recently.
Rant over. FWI, I used to see steelhead in some of these little trickles.
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