Salty Dog,
I admit, I did take this off course a bit with the flood control stuff. It's not written up in these alternatives, but flood control is an underlying basis for "river protection." And the campgrounds that were destroyed in the floods of '97 were never rebuilt, which is an example of how that event was used to get what some people wanted.
Let's get back to a more focused discussion of the actually items in the alternatives if this thread keeps going.
