The Whatcom Excavator
  • Home
    • About Us
    • Who's Planning Our Lives?
    • Diminishing Property Rights
    • NGO's & Public-Private Partners
    • Agenda 21
    • Buzzwords
    • Deep Thought
    • Best Available Science
    • Best Available Humor >
      • Humor Archive
  • The DREDGE
    • Gotta See This
    • How To Dredge
  • Bulldozed
    • Eco-Activism and County Policy
    • CELDF - "Democracy"
    • ALERT: Community Energy Challenge
  • Pig Trough
    • ReSources
    • Sustainable Connections
    • BALLE
    • ICLEI
    • Whatcom County Community Network
    • Big Wheels Award
  • Contact Us

Dear Friends of Working Forest ... an Action Alert!

1/10/2013

2 Comments

 
Don't let this slip by.  Get involved.   A dedicated forester reaches out for public involvement.  (For more background on this story, read a few prior dredges:  here, here, and here.)

Dear Friends of Working Forest,

Your help is needed to make sure our voices are heard by the Whatcom County Council, so they are not pressured to reconvey almost 9,000 of commercial forest lands in the Lake Whatcom watershed for a "low impact" park. The involvement and attendance by so many of you at the September 11th hearing convinced the County Executive and Council to further review the proposed reconveyance. A series of work meetings between the Council and Parks Director are being planned.

Tentatively these meetings will be held during the "Council Committee of the Whole" session, when the following subjects will be discussed. The first meeting on January 15th will be at 9:30 am in the council chambers.


January 15th     The overall conceptual park plan and the recreation aspects of the plan for the Lake Whatcom lands.

January 29th     Forestry consideration when the county controls these forest. What type of forest management plans and how to implement by the county? Councilman's Crawford proposal to keep some of the area available for forest management.

February 12th   A fiscal discussion of the proposed reconveyance.

You will need to check the Council web site for meeting times. They will be open to the public, but most likely not offer a chance for public comments. A good way for input would be an e-mail note to the council at [email protected] before each of these sessions, asking questions and making comments on the particular subject. You could also give 3 minute comments at "Open Session" at their evening meeting.

Besides not fully vetting and addressing questions about the proposed reconveyance of these working forests, they have given little consideration to any alternatives. One obvious alternative would leave this land under DNR management, so it could continue to produce timber revenue under the Landscape Plan. Then the county could engage DNR, other private timber land owners, recreation users and others to developed recreation strategies that could greatly expand diverse recreation opportunities even beyond the watershed. We all know that working forest lands can provide great low cost recreation, protect water and wildlife resources, while still being managed for timber revenues.

Please consider becoming involved again in this discussion and feel free to forward this notice to other interested citizens. Contact me if you have any questions.

Thanks for your help,

Tom Westergreen
360-961-0312

2 Comments
childofww2
1/10/2013 01:50:57 am

Thanks for up date and good information - letter to council re DNA continuing management on the way - seems like the best compromise position if they [counsil] are bull headed enough to foist this on the taxpayers.

Reply
Kris Halterman link
1/10/2013 05:09:27 am

Thank you to the contributor(s) of WE. You are shining a well needed light onto the actions of our local political representatives.

Reply

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    WE Dredge!
    Picture
    Posting Rules:
    This forum is moderated.  Please make an effort to substantiate claims that support opinion.  Gratuitous profanity and ad-hominem attacks will not be accepted.  You can create a "nickname" if you'd like, and you don't have to reveal your e-mail address.   Feel free to share information and your honest thoughts.

    Categories

    All
    Agenda 21
    Best Available Science
    Big Government
    Eco Activism
    Ethics
    Freedom
    Planning
    Property Rights
    Science
    Small Business
    Social Engineering
    Taxes
    Welcome

    Archives

    January 2022
    September 2020
    August 2020
    April 2020
    November 2019
    August 2019
    September 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011


    Automatic Updates

    Do you want to be notified when new content is added to this newsfeed? Most browsers allow you to subscribe to our Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed. Click on the RSS link below, and follow the instructions.

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.