Wild Olympics Discussion at PABA meeting
The guest speaker at this Tuesday's Port Angeles Business Association meeting will be Carol Johnson, executive director of the North Olympic Timber Action Committee. She will be presenting the timber industry's alternative to the Wild Olympics campaign.
The Wild Olympics campaign aims to add 38,000 acres to Olympic National Park, which would be achieved through voluntary sales by willing landowners.
Last June Carol Johnson told the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce that the loss of these 38,000 acres would eliminate between 112 and 226 jobs, and cause local governments to lose up to $4 million in tax revenue.
The Wild Olympics campaign aims to add 38,000 acres to Olympic National Park, which would be achieved through voluntary sales by willing landowners.
Last June Carol Johnson told the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce that the loss of these 38,000 acres would eliminate between 112 and 226 jobs, and cause local governments to lose up to $4 million in tax revenue.
Labels: Carol Johnson, North Olympic Timber Action Committee, Port Angeles Business Association, Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, Wild Olympics campaign
posted by Tom Harper at 5:09 PM
8 Comments:
I love the park, but I think it is big enough. Besides, it's taxpayer supported, the bigger it gets the more of your taxes that will have to go to support it, while they work at not letting you have access to a lot of it.
I'm reminded of a book I read years ago about the kings not wanting you on their lands and taking their fish and deer.
The PABA continues to be an embarrassment to Port Angeles. Selfish, greedy exploiters with 19th century mentality. Hopeless.
I'm sure we can rely on Jim McEntire to oppose this proposal.
Interesting, as I think he is one of the "Property Rights" guys that supports people being able to do what they want with their land.
As I understand this proposal, willing landowners will be able to sell their land to the Park, if they want to. Or, don't have to, if they don't want to.
This IS a "Property Rights" issue. But, these "Property Rights" folks seem to believe in individual rights, only when it suits their political agenda.
Kinda like "Freedom". They seem to say: I support you having freedom, until you believe, think, speak, propose or do things I don't agree with.
I'm agreeable with them letting me homestead five acres off grid in the park or national forest.
I saw a post on the PDN site saying that the Director of the Center in Forks quoted in the paper as "co-author" of that $10,000 report was John Calhoun. That Calhoun was also the past president and commissoner of the Port of Port Angeles, that ordered the $10,000 study.
And, that the Center represented the forestry industry.
Funny how the PDN didn't point that out.
Insanity! This is nothing more than the "Rewilding of America" revisited. International Falls Minnesota was ONCE a bustling community with paper mills and good family wage jobs with a population of around 17 thousand before Bill Clinton stole our properties, burned our lake homes in the dead of night, dropped seal teams on Rainy Lake to harrass the fishermen and created our newest National Park, thus taking out the major timber supply. Ensuing this action mills closed, the population went down to the current which is a nudge over 9000, the federal government promised to make Int'l Falls a tourist mecca and that tourism would replace those jobs lost. That is going on 2 decades ago, we are still waiting... This is VERY DESTRUCTIVE to our community, it must not be allowed to happen! Besides the federal government is BEYOND BROKE and cannot even manage the lands it now has. Don C Carey
International Falls, as of the 2010 census, was down to 6,424.
Check this out: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21343
Federal Lands in the US
The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) – nearly 30% of its total territory.
This map details the percentage of state territory owned by the federal government. The top 10 list of states with the highest percentage of federally owned land looks like this:
Nevada 84.5%
Alaska 69.1%
Utah 57.4%
Oregon 53.1%
Idaho 50.2%
Arizona 48.1%
California 45.3%
Wyoming 42.3%
New Mexico 41.8%
Colorado 36.6%
I say it's time to force the federal government into selling all it's land except the 10 square miles that is provided for by the Constitution and take that money and pay off the national debt, and the first to go should be the national parks!
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