-- Dear to my heart would be a return and rebuild of the Thompson, Nicola, Spences bridge steelhead.
Bill was on the forefront in the fight to enhance the steelhead program on the Thomson. Together with the Nicola Valley Fish & Game Club and the Lillooet Club he planned to build a hatchery. Until the day he had to go to the hospital Bill was busy with meetings at government levels. However this was one battle he lost because the government refused to have a hatchery built on the Thomson, even so the clubs would have provided the financing and the running of the hatchery. As usual a minority political agenda seems more important to the government than conservation and creating opportunity for all, not just a select minority.
We will continue the fight to have a hatchery on the Thomson and improve the steelhead fishery in that region. We owe that, and much more, to Bill.
As stated in a different post here. Bill did many things that we do not know about, but take for granted today, because he was not the kind of man that made a big story about it or bragged about his achievements on forums. He just worked quietly and unassuming day in and day out, often traveling great distances, even when very ill, to attend meetings and hearings.