Elwha River Sediment will be Topic at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
At tomorrow's Chamber of Commerce luncheon, the topic will be the Elwha River sediment spawned by the removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams. Guest speakers will be Park Superintendent Sarah Creachbaum and Public Affairs Specialist Barb Maynes.
posted by Tom Harper at 2:14 PM
8 Comments:
If Chamber members really want to learn about the sediment dispersal from behind the former dams, then they should have invited Anne Shaffer and her staff from the Coastal Watershed Institute. The NPS officials possess only a general knowledge about it - enough for a few talking points. But the majority of the meeting attendees will be people who opposed dam removal in the first place, and so even if a knowledgeable speaker told them of all of the good coming from the flushing sediment, they would just dismiss it as junk science.
3,735 square KM of hippy wonderland, the Olympic National Park. Of all the National Parks to live near, it's the best one. Everything about it, its history, the wildness, the close proximity to civilization. It's isolated just enough to manage properly with little $$ and little stress. The fact that it's such a giantic asset, where it is (in our backyard and close to the Puget Sound megalopolis) and what that means for the future of man, and earth, and the way things are going, how people are waking up, how we treat each other, how we "let go" (logging kaput, fishing kaput...Native American "overentitlement") and no matter how much the "new" republicans try to fuck it up, they can't....drives them crazy. Plenty of good realtors in Boise. Make that call.
Hum...
Actually, we have done a hell of a lot of damage here in just the last hundred years and I'm not impressed with the new waterfront improvment.
Pretty quiet on the streets and sidewalks most every time I drive downtown. Doesn't look like people are driving here in droves, despite what some folks think.
Went downtown Sunday, around noon. Literally could count on one hand the number of people on the sidewalks. Yesterday, at around 10:30, same thing.
Sure, there are times when the cars are rolling through town on their way somewhere. But.
The following comment, from five hours ago, got caught in the spam filter somehow. Here it is:
What a crock about alleged "deep concerns" for the PA water supply, as expressed by a city official to yesterday's Chamber audience. Such statements are mere posturing for political purposes. There is no credible threat to the PA municipal water supply.
QUICK! Head over to the PDN and read the comments regarding the Heuther sentencing!!!
It's like there is a brief moment, when Port Angeles has realized it's being run by a bunch of twisted, criminal, PERVERTED rednecks!
I'm sure it will pass...but there is hope. There is always hope.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
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