By ALLEN THOMAS The opener of trout fishing season at Swift Reservoir is being delayed a month - until May 24 - because of the rare combination of deep snow in mountains and low water in the lake. Fishing was scheduled to open April 26.

By Don Hamilton, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Sep. 20--Skamania County commissioners quietly approved a controversial plan earlier this month allowing 900 new homes on Swift Reservoir, some only three miles from the Mount St. Helens crater. During its Sept.

By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Sep. 8--County's vision for limited development near Swift Reservoir looks promising It is way too easy for the 400,000-plus residents of Clark County to dismiss as insignificant the civic affairs of adjacent Skamania County, population 10,300.

By Kathie Durbin, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Sep.

By KATHIE DURBIN , Columbian staff writer Developers who have set their sights on building more new subdivisions north of Swift Reservoir have hired a former Skamania County planner and the county's former prosecuting attorney to help press their case.