Every May for fourteen years, Lee Spencer and his companion, a cow dog named Sis, have camped next to a deep, cool pool on a tributary creek that flows into the North Umpqua River. Their only job until December is to protect the 400 to 600 cherished wild summer steelhead from poachers who have been known to dynamite the pool. During his first summer, Spencer built a sheltered viewing platform, a place to sit with Sis and his notebook, and observe the denizens of the pool for months, and…
