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Monday, December 14, 2009
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Heavy rain occurring on Dec 14 | Dec 15 | Dec 16 | Dec 17
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Dosewallips
Road Repairs May Take Two Weeks, Peninsula Daily News,
11/24/2009. The road is closed to all but local traffic, and
flaggers are moving traffic across a single lane. See Port
Townsend Leader 11/22/2009 story. See Brinnon
Fire Department site.
Power out? Call Mason County PUD at 800-544-4223
/ 24 hour hotline.
Connie Gallant of Quilcene,
Receives Washington Wilderness Coalition Award
 Thursday,
November 12, 2009 in Seattle Connie Gallant received the Karen
M. Fant Founder's Award from the Washington
Wilderness Coalition for her accomplishments as a conservation
activist. She says "it will be a great honor to receive
this award on behalf of all the organizations and folks who
work so hard to save and protect our corner of the world."
Karen Fant was one of the founders in 1979 of the Washington
Wilderness Coalition. She was credited with a major part of
the grass-roots work in which Congress enacted the 1 million-acre
1984 Washington State Wilderness Act. Those who knew Karen
praise her dedication, determination, and passion to protect
many wilderness areas, including helping to protect the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
See some of Connie's work: Save
Mount Walker | She is Vice President on the Board of Olympic
Forest Coalition
Jan. 29, 2009, BRINNON -- Four years after a
plan to log parts of a sensitive forest in one of America's
oldest Boy Scout camps ignited public outrage, the Chief Seattle
Council has clearcut a different section of Camp Parsons on
Washington's scenic Hood Canal. See Seattle
P-I story on 'Chainsaw Scouting'
Planning
behind proposed Brinnon mega-resort sound, state growth board
rules - see Sept. 17, 2008 Peninsula Daily News 
See Kitsap Sun "Watching Our Water Ways"
blog entry on Brinnon
resort is close to approval
See Seattle Times Sept., 2008, Hood
Canal: nature on the half-shell It's one of Washington's
hidden jewels, a fishhook-shaped natural fjord dividing the
Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas. It's a deep breath, a moment
of silence.
QUILCENE, Feb., 2008 — Timber won't be harvested
on Mount Walker as part of an upcoming timber sale, an Olympic
National Forest Olympic National Forest supervisor said. See
Peninsula Daily News story. The Olympic
Forest Coalition (OFC) reports in its 1/31/08
newsletter that this is indeed good news:
Said Olympic National Forest Supervisor Dale Horn: "The
Northwest Forest Plan introduced approximately 15 years ago
changed the cultural and economic landscape of the Olympic
Peninsula that continues to evolve today. Gone are the days
of the Forest Service clear cut." See BrinnonInfo
Hiking for Mt. Walker Viewpoint and Mt. Walker Trail info.
 Ecology
station 16D070 Dosewallips nr Brinnon is online and posting
real-time stage and temperature data to the web. Department
of Ecology has posted a very cool web site for the Dosewallips
River @ Brinnon stream flow monitoring station. Check
it out.
Want to be updated on WRIA 16 happenings and get involved
in watershed planning? Contact Susan Gulick, Sound Resolutions,
Susan@Soundresolutions.com, (206) 548-0469 (office). See
BrinnonInfo Planning page
for more on WRIA 16 & 17, shoreline, and more planning
contacts.
Finally! Don't tap
your toes waiting for that file to download.
High speed Internet access is here!
Call 888-840-0825
or see:http://embarq.com/highspeed
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