Port of Port Angeles Commissioners Oppose ONP Wilderness Plan
Port of Port Angeles Commissioners have sent a letter to Olympic National Park officials, stating their opposition to the Park's proposed wilderness plan. (Big surprise.)
Port Commissioners said the wilderness plan would reduce access to the park, thereby reducing the economic benefits generated by the park. Park officials are taking public comments on the wilderness plan through May 17th.
Port Commissioners said the wilderness plan would reduce access to the park, thereby reducing the economic benefits generated by the park. Park officials are taking public comments on the wilderness plan through May 17th.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:23 AM
6 Comments:
As you say, no surprise.
What these morons do not seem to understand is that perception of what Port Angeles is, has a lot to do with how visitors see Port Angeles. Whether they will make plans to spend their vacation dollars here, or any of a lot of other small communities making efforts to lure them there.
The timber industries now employ around 3% of the working people in Clallam County. This seems like a very small minority for the Port of Port Angeles to be catering it's policies around.
What about the other 97%. Do we just "pound sand", as former Rayonier mill employee, and former City Council member Grant Munro, told us?
Is this the way to move Port Angeles forward? Is this an example of what has been learned from recent discussions on economic development? Just more of the same?
Well, they focused on cutting down the forests, and THREATENING to cut them all down, for a CENTURY to keep the hippies and "liberal" tourists out.
Now, they will do ANYTHING to make this a Republican paradise.
Their biggest achievement, or result, is best seen when one walks around downtown (which is the busiest and most interesting part of PA despite what some say) or in a fairly crowded store in PA, and one observes all the frowny faces. Unhappy young people. Frowns on the faces of old farts, and I'm one, that's normal - most of us will not smile nor say hi to strangers here in public when we are "busy" and we are used to that. It's the unhappy young people - with paranoid looks on their faces, and darting eyes, inability to make eye contact - that has me worried! They all can't be disappointed tourists! It's not the weed, don't even go there! Perhaps a lack of it, maybe.
The way I look at it is like this. Tom is pointing out that the Port Commissioners have sent a letter to the Park Officials opposing the Olympic National Parks' "Wild Olympics" Plan.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that the Olympic National Park's greatest value, the reason it was created it the first place, is it's "wild" attributes. So, it makes sense that the Park creates plans that help it maintain the reason it was created.
The Park was created for ALL peoples, Americans and everyone else. It was created specifically to preserve it's beauties for future generations to be able to enjoy, BECAUSE the timber industries at that time were all too happy to clear cut everything they could, AND because "local governments" were all too happy to be paid off by the timber industries to allow it.
So, the Federal government enacted protections, because, as we see with the Port of Port Angeles actions today, "local government" continues to demonstrate the inability to see past the campaign donations of Big Timber.
Also demonstrated by this letter is the two-faced positions of the local Republicans. One one hand, they will tell voters they stand for "individual property rights". That a property owner should be unfettered by regulations that restrict what a property owner can do with their property.
But then, they turn right around, and oppose this plan, which is ALL about establishing a fund so that WNEN, and IF owners of specific properties decide THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR OWN PROPERTY, there is a fund there to facilitate that. These are a relatively small number of properties that have been identified has having value to the Park.
And finally, there is "economic development", which the Port of Port Angeles is supposed to be all about. Despite all the talk from the recently formed, and now operating in secret "Port Angeles Unitited", we see that when it comes to taking real action, these same people have the same views as they always have, and are doing the same things that have gotten us into the desperate circumstances we find ourselves in now.
Empty streets, empty sidewalks, and empty stores.
With Helen dying and me having a hernia operation this was a rough week for me so right now I'm not caring about all that other shit.
Also, I don't think tourists bring all that much money here, if they did they wouldn't have to ask for volunteers to greet the cruse ships, they could pay people to do that and provide a little employment.
On Craigslist R&R, someone posted a screenshot of a recent PDN Easter related shenanigan. Did the PDN actually print the comment made by that woman about Obama and Muslims?
What the heck is wrong with that paper? Would they let someone go off on Jews and print that?
Now that I only get my PDN news from here and screenshots on Craigslist, I'd really appreciate if it someone posted a list of PA businesses that DON'T advertise in the PDN so my personal boycott could be simpler.
I heard a clip on the Victoria radio a while ago saying each of the real cruise ships (not those little things that come to Port Angeles) brings $2 million to the city. They get around 220 of those, each year.
Sorry you've had a rough week, Billy. Hopefully this next one will be better.
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