Our Olympics Are Wild Enough

Bill Pickell tells us:

On Monday the 11^th at 7 pm we are invited by the Mayor to give the counter proposal to the Wild Olympics who will precede us at the council meeting.    Sara Krum from Dicks office along with her cohorts will give the presentation, and they’ve already told them that they don’t want the council to make a decision until a bill is drafted.  We must convince the council to say NO to this proposal now so Dicks knows there is opposition.  It would be nice if we had some of the Lake Quinault folks there as well as any others you can think off for support.  Harold and I will be there for sure.

If a tree falls in the woods--and a trail is there--does it make a sound? It depends on whether it's a trail the enviros want to use or we want to use. After the December 2007 storm the nature loop trails on the Lake Quinault South Shore road were covered in miles of blown-down trees as was 1-1/2 miles of the Colonel Bob Wilderness trail. The nature loop trails were cut out with chainsaws in two months. The Colonel Bob Wilderness trail is still impassible at 3-1/2 years and counting.

I went before the Aberdeen City Council last night asking them to form a resolution to oppose the wild oly “con-pain”, it went really well. A resolution is being drafted and will be brought back to the council on  Wed. APRIL 13TH, for public comment and a vote by the council. We need to have people there in support of this resolution!! This will also be wild oly’s chance to make their case. We are working to do the same for all other cities and esp. the County Commissioners whose land they represent is most directly effected by the Wilderness and Wild & Scenic designations in the W. Fork Humptulips Thinning and should be in the E. Fork as well. Currently the FS is to afraid of the enviros to try a project proposal, I am pushing this one hard with enviros, IF you really truly care about the enviroment and want Desired Future Conditions(DFC) then you have to support thinning in the E.Fork. 

After Enviro Jon was before the Chamber for 2 1/2 hrs on Wed. and was shot down on all his reasons for why this campaign was necessary, he was offered a “pause” to bring his coalition to the table and have an open and transparent dialogue with our concerns, he blew that off at his Daily World interview a few hrs. later. We have been interviewed and sounds like article will be out Sunday. It was an uphill battle to convince Steven that what the “con-pain” told him wasn’t true. I‘m not sure what we are going to get, he did call me back later that eve. and told me I was right on one major point- that others on the peninsula,up north, are opposed to this. He found that the Port Angelos Port Commissioners took unanimous vote to oppose wild oly. in June 2010.

Chuck Cushman of the American Lands Right Assn., who has successfully beat back the Wild & Scenic in Olympics every time, wants to get involved and help our fight. He is going to come to town for a pre-battle mtg. this Sun. 20th at the Bee Hive mtg. room in Monte. at 6:00. His knowledge would be beneficial to anyone with land use issues. He will stay in town for our Mon 21st mtg at AHS 6-8:30 as a presntr. and then wants to do a follow- up on Tues. over dinner, esp. since I am leaving on the 26th for a month. He wants to be sure those that need to carry the ball are ready and established. He has a HUGE list of contacts to get our cause out to.