Rob Ernst

OPINION: Saying the right thing and doing the right thing are two different things. So, Gov. Sean Parnell should do the right thing: Put balance back into Alaska’s salmon habitat management instead of allowing mining to destroy healthy streams.

I've fished in Cook Inlet my entire life. I need look no further than the recent salmon fishery closures in the Pacific Northwest to know how good we have it in Cook Inlet and elsewhere around Alaska.