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- January 22, 2016
By Elizabeth Scott, State Representative I have grown increasingly concerned about the assaults on property rights in our state. The people of East Skagit County were not consulted on their opinion about elk being transplanted there with tax dollars, causing hundreds of traffic accidents, thousands of dollars of crop damage on many farms, damage to
By Dave Hallock The Marblemount Community Center was crowded last night with concerned citizens who came to share their views on the Barnaby Reach project as well as other issues they wanted to discuss with our our State Representative Elizabeth Scott. Thank you, Representative Scott, for coming to meet with us and express your support! Thank
By Russ Dalton I am a resident of Rockport, living at the north end of Martin Road in the larger Barnaby Reach Project Area. The Skagit River System Cooperative has proposed to restore habitat conditions for fish and wildlife in the Barnaby Reach of the Skagit River. I have been intrigued by their proposal and
Community meeting planned with our State Representative, Elizabeth Scott. 6:30 p.m., January 7, 2016. Marblemount Community Hall. Elizabeth Scott, State Representative, has expressed keen interest in meeting with people in our community regarding the Barnaby Project. Thanks so much, Christie Fairchild, for taking the lead in setting up a meeting now planned for 6:30 p.m., January
Here is Devin Smith’s response to my email letter of December 13, 2013, which you can read here: Letter to Devin Smith First, here is my brief response, followed by Mr. Smith’s letter. Dear Devin Smith, Thank you for your response to my letter of yesterday. I see where your analysis equates a modeled historical condition
Here is an email letter I sent to Devin Smith of the Skagit River System Cooperative this morning (December 13, 2015), commenting on the public meeting last week and discussing certain issues. Christie Fairchild, Howard Stafford and Russ Dalton, our neighborhood stakeholder representatives, were copied on the letter. We encourage neighbors who attended the meeting to
By Beth Easterday Here is the flyer that is regarding the meeting at Howard Miller Park; post these wherever you think folks with an interest in diverting the Skagit River may gather. I personally am not interested in seeing what will happen when the river flows downhill into Martin Road and straight towards the Sauk.
Rising temperatures or 2.9 to 5.4 F. over the coming decades are forecast to cause more flooding in our region. So says a significant new report on climate change just published by the University of Washington. It is called, “State of Knowledge Report – Climage Change in Puget Sound.” You can access the report at this University
By Beth Easterday Minutes of the Barnaby Project stakeholder advisory committee meeting of September 28, 2015, in Marblemount have been published by the Skagit River System Cooperative. The notes and the overview of the meeting are thorough and pretty accurate. Three residents of the Martin Road area of Rockport participate on this committee: Howard Stafford,
Seattle King 5 News visited Rockport this morning and talked with Howard Stafford about our opposition to the Barnaby Reach project plan to divert significant Skagit River flow into the Barnaby Slough upriver from our residential community. The channel would let the river move diagonally across our valley. The design intention is that about thirty