Two Webcams have been set up to monitor the Langille Fire on the Cowlitz Ranger District in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Click here to see the images.

Camera 1 is located 7 miles north of the Langille Fire. Camera 2 is located 2 ½ miles to the southwest of the fire.

According to the Web site, the cameras let fire managers keep an eye on strategic areas that are difficult to access by foot and expensive to monitor by helicopter. Managers can pan/tilt/zoom the cameras to look closely at features of interest.

The Web site also includes a photo gallery from the fire.

Well, the new record single-day steelhead tally at Bonneville Dam didn't last long.

In fact, we've seen records set on three consecutive days this week, according to the state's Joe Hymer. He said 34,054 fish were counted at Bonneville Dam Thursday, topping record counts set Tuesday and Wednesday. The previous record before this week was 14,432 fish on Aug. 3, 2001.

The count on Wednesday was 28,314 steelhead and 18,671 on Tuesday.

The pre-season forecast was 352,000 upriver summer run steelhead.

He also said the first pink of the season was counted on Thursday.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is stepping up enforcement patrols and considering additional restrictions in the Strait of Juan de Fuca after discovering numerous anglers have breaking regulations designed to protect wild salmon.

Fishing for chinook in marine areas 5 (Sekiu) and 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca) closed Aug. 7. However, state fish samplers and enforcement officers have encountered dozens of anglers with chinook, said Pat Pattillo, salmon policy coordinator for the department.

"We closed chinook retention in marine areas 5 and 6 early to avoid further impacts to wild chinook salmon," Pattillo said in a news release. "If compliance in those two marine areas doesn't improve, we'll be forced to consider additional restrictions to protect wild salmon."

Currently, marine areas 5 and 6 are open seven days a week for hatchery coho and pink salmon. Hatchery chinook retention in the two marine areas ended nine days earlier than scheduled because anglers had caught and released more wild chinook than were forecast in the pre-season estimates.

Pattillo said a number of anglers recently have been checked at the docks with undersized chinook they misidentified as pink salmon. He encourages anglers to release salmon they can't positively identify.

You can click here for descriptions of each salmon species or find them pages 72 and 73 of the "Fishing in Washington" sport fishing rules pamphlet.

Anglers also can ask the department's dockside fish samplers for a salmon identification card before heading out on the water.

"Anglers are responsible for correctly identifying their catch, so it's important that they take the time to learn the differences between each salmon species before going fishing," said Mike Cenci, deputy chief of enforcement, in the release. "People who fail to learn the difference - or simply ignore the rules – are jeopardizing the resource and putting fishing seasons at risk for everyone."