Letters

Informational Letter from Marc Duboiski, Grants Manager 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Letters
- March 23, 2015
Marc Duboiski is the Salmon Recovery Funding Board Grants Manager for our area. Here is a letter he sent on March 23, 2015, after I spoke with him about the Barnaby Reach project. “Thanks for talking to me this morning. I always appreciate talking to landowners and listening to their concerns. My agency provides staff

By Dave Hallock
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Letter to Robert Everitt, Regional Director, WDFW 0
- Barnaby Project, Letters
- March 23, 2015
March 23, 2015 Dear Robert Everitt: I see on the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office web page for the “Barnaby Reach Feasibility” project that you wrote a “concurrence letter” to the steering committee members for this project, expressing approval and endorsing their selection of “alternative #4.” Were you aware at the time that

By Dave Hallock
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Original Letter of Inquiry to Marc Duboiski, Grant Manager, Salmon Recovery Board 0
- Barnaby Project, Barnaby Project Information, Letters
- March 22, 2015
Here is Dave Hallock’s original letter to the Salmon Recovery Board Grant Manager for our area. Dave had just become aware of the possible relationship between the Washington Department of Recreation and Conservation and the troubling Barnaby Reach project. We are publishing this letter because it describes certain concerns about flood risk associated with the

By Dave Hallock
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Dear Jenny Baker of The Nature Conservancy 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Letters
- March 19, 2015
Dear Jenny Baker, We can’t imagine that The Nature Conservancy would go along with a project which features restoration actions that would cause an increase in our exposure to flood risk that cannot be fully mitigated for catastrophic events. If you’ve had a chance to review the SRC document, you’ve noticed the idea of cutting

By Dave Hallock
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Letter to Lisa Janicki Asking for Support 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Letters
- March 18, 2015
Dear Lisa Janicki, Thank you for coming to Rockport and meeting with concerned residents and homeowners here regarding the developing plans of the Skagit River Cooperative to carry out fish habitat restoration upriver from our lands and homes. We have serious concerns and are opposed to any initiative which would channel Skagit River flow into the

By Dave Hallock
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Forget About Channeling the Skagit into the Barnaby Slough 0
- Barnaby Project, Featured, Letters
- February 24, 2015
This is a letter Dave Hallock sent to Devin Smith, Senior Restoration Ecologist, Skagit River System Cooperative, on February 24, 2015, following a public meeting in Sedro-Woolley in which the SRSC discussed its Barnaby Reach project with a large audience of concerned citizens: Dear Devin Smith: This is to provide you with feedback and input

By Dave Hallock
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Letter to Rep Dan Kristiansen Asking for Support 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Letters
- February 19, 2015
Dear Representative Kristiansen, I am writing to you on behalf of my neighbors who live and own homes and land in the Martin Road area of Rockport. We are very concerned about the potential for an increase in our exposure to flood risk associated with a developing project to improve fish habitat just upriver from

By Dave Hallock
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Letter to Senator Kirk Pearson Asking for Support 0
- Barnaby Project, Letters
- February 19, 2015
Dear Senator Pearson, I am writing to you on behalf of my neighbors who live and own homes and land in the Martin Road area of Rockport. We are very concerned about the potential for an increase in our exposure to flood risk associated with a developing project to improve fish habitat just upriver from

By Dave Hallock
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SRSC: Listen to Our Neighbors!0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Letters
- February 12, 2015
We have great confidence in the experience and judgment of the people who have lived in the Martin Road area for a long time and have intimate familiarity with your project area. These people include Howard Stafford who has lived his entire life here, as well as Lee and Lisa Fenley and Denton and Jessica

By Dave Hallock
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Use Value Analysis to Rule Out Flood Prone Options 0
- Articles, Barnaby Project, Letters
- February 12, 2015
Dear Devin Smith, Senior Restoration Ecologist, Skagit River System Cooperative: This letter is to recommend and advance elements of a value-analysis-based approach to deciding on which Barnaby Slough habitat restoration alternative is chosen. You may intend to do something very much like what I’m going to summarize, I don’t know, but I want to share

By Dave Hallock
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