Day 3. I understand how to get trout stocked in Los Vaqueros now. The way to get trout stocked is to convince the US Fish and Wildlife Service to agree that stocking trout is OK in the eyes of the laws they operate under (Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 and whatever else). Need to define 'whatever else'

Who is the person who can give this approval? Do they have to go to their boss first to check? Is it done by committee? Does someone have to request that they do something, or will they do it in due time?

All that remains to be found.

But we should begin at the beginning. So I started with the of the USFWS and found immediate irony on line 1, which lets us know that in 1871, one of the very first thing the US Fish and Wildlife Service did was to send fertilized salmon eggs from Northern California across the country to be stocked in other places.

The horrors.

It's an interesting agency, one that I know little about. It will be fun to learn more.