An excellent read about Lee Spencer courtesy of the LA Times.
Everyone on the river calls it “Lee’s pool,” and that alone might be proof one person can make a difference.
Decades ago, it was Dynamite Hole. Poachers would set off explosives and kill steelhead by the dozens, fish that had made it upriver from the ocean — past sea lions, fishermen and a dam — but hadn’t yet reached their spawning grounds.
That was before Lee Spencer settled in almost 20 years ago to watch over the trout.
The North Umpqua is currently ablaze, and Lee has been evacuated from the pool.
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5505/