[Graybeard58]

At least 500,000 prime acres, representing an area the size of Los Angeles and San Diego combined

Somebody do the math, I've only been up for about ten minutes but this just doesn' t sound right. 43,560 sq ft in an acre and those two cities are measured in sq miles

5,280ft X 5,280ft = one sq mile.

[Hardslab]

640 acres per sq mile.

So around 780 sq miles.

In the harebrained effort to save the stupid smelt, they are on track to piss off enough people so much that eventually someone will be driven over the edge, and instead of killing themselves, they will dump a hundred gallons of cyanide or something into the river and poof, the smelt will be extinct.