Earnest greens dumped boulders and logs into streams to create natural conditions, while a mile downstream someone else was undoing all that benefit bydredging or laying culverts.
Restoring the water-retaining capacity of hydro-electric dams by regular dredging and sand and silt removal is the only way left before the authorities.
Mr Packard's recently signed bill resuscitates the navy's project by allowing the navy to obtain clean sand from anywhere, rather than just from dredging.