What we forget, what we accept, and what we choose to restore   I didn’t grow up knowing what a “healthy” river or fishery looked like. I had no concept or visual model of what an “intact floodplain” might feel like. I knew the difference between a canal and a creek, but that was about it. Like many people who spend their lives around rivers, my understanding of what’s normal was shaped by what I saw and experienced in front of me. A good day of fishing. A decent run-off year