Counterpoint: If it can happen to Mille Lacs ...

Commendably, the Star Tribune’s July 26 editorial (“Rescue plan needed for suffering Mille Lacs”) attempted to put fair and reasonable context around the unsettling news that one of Minnesota’s most popular lakes is suffering to the extent that fishing for the prized walleye will almost certainly be banned for the rest of the year.

Unfortunately, earlier reporting and a column by outdoors writer Dennis Anderson (“Why Mille Lacs fishery faltered, and what we can do,” July 24) did a disservice in dissecting the Mille Lacs problem by fingering climate change as a culprit, harping that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) needs a better fish-management plan — and, oh yes, about those Indians and their treaty fishing rights.

http://www.startribune.com/counterpoint-if-it-can-happen-to-mille-lacs/319645691/