Mr. Young's insinuation is that prior to the Northwest Forest Plan there wasn't clean water in the coastal rivers and there were not enough fish to support a recreational fishery in the coastal rivers..  I see no facts supporting either assumption.
I do see that all the monitoring to date of the Northwest Forest Plan area has shown that spotted owl numbers are declining at a faster rate than predicted, the economic impacts to the rural communities have been greater than predicted, and the timber harvest has been far less than predicted.  Yet, it is still the great "compromise" that rules management on all the federal forests in Western Oregon, Washington, and Northern California to this day.  So much for monitoring and making adjustments.
I'm glad he can afford to send his daughter to college and professional school and buy new pickups.  There are a lot of local waitresses and motel room cleaners who wished they had the same opportunity.