On 1/3/98 Kelly wrote:

<<When the legislature first passed the law requiring the Department of
Fish and Wildlife to implement this new license, it was provided as
a sticker to stick on your vehicle. If you bought a hunting or fishing
license, the sticker came along for free. I believe this is where
some have gotten the impression that the permit is required in
addition to a hunting or fishing license.>>

My first encounter with the CL was in 1991 when I wanted to fish on the
Columbia at Ringold (sp) across from Hanford. I paid $5 for the stamp which
was required in addition to my fishing license. It was a stamp, like a
postage stamp, that was affixed to the fishing license itself.

The Ringold public access area is a popular fishing spot with several hundred
yards of shoreline and probably 100 or more acres of adjoining State property.
Many fishers would camp there for several days in tents and RVs and had non-
fishing family members with them. Several of these State owned public access
areas allow camping, even some of the small sites of about an acre. I have
camped in them on the Grande Rhonde. I suspect, that because anyone can camp
in these areas, that the fee was imposed. All of them have at least a porta
potty, some have fire pits. So, I guess that when the posted signs (large,
painted ones, as at Palmer on the Green) say Conservation License required
without any other explanation, they are intended for non-fishers/hunters, and
are probably out-dated.

Jim Brewster
Kent Washington