Yeah, been emailing and calling DFW/DFG (when they where still called that) to inform them of illegal mining and poaching that occurs on this stretch for almost a decade, which is a pretty apparent cause of this dwindling.
It got so bad that BBC (yes, the British Broadcast Corporation, and not the Bucket Brigade Crew) did an expose on this issue.
How bad is it that a foreign entity like the BBC does an expose on something so local to us!!!!
http://www.bbc.com/earth/gallery/201...ifornias-hills
Once I get a response from DFW/DFG, I'll be glad to post it. Although I don't expect it to happen anytime soon. They're too busy dumping Xmas trees in lakes and stocking broodstocks in rivers as they've done before and calling that progress.
I can give you the contacts that I've been trying to reach so perhaps you may get responses, because I sure haven't.
Good luck.