HomeMy WebLinkAbout030223 Written Comments - Public Hearing to Protect Dabob Bay February 28_ 2023________________________________
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Public Hearing to Protect Dabob Bay
For: Dabob Bay InterTrust Land Exchange, DNR No. 86-100443
Dabob Bay Trust Land Transfer, DNR No. 02-099529
February 28, 2023 6:00 pm Quilcene School
Written Testimony must be received by March 15, 2023
My name is Steve Lemonds. I live in Lake Forest Park, Washington just northeast of Seattle. My uncle Lloyd bought property on the eastern shore of Dabob Bay on the Toandos Peninsula
back in the 1940s. He lived there full time in a cabin he built from the 1960s until his passing in 1990. My sister Joan has lived on the property full time since the 1980s and continues
to live there today. My sister and I co-own the property where her house is located.
My sister Joan and I urge the DNR to approve the Inter-Trust Exchange and Trust Land Transfer proposal for protecting state lands within the Dabob Bay Natural Area (expanded in 2016)
from timber management to protected status.
The DNR’s “Inter-Trust Exchange” between common school trust land and forest board Trust Land will allow DNR to permanently preserve the state forestland while compensating the timber
trust lands and revenue they provide.
The conservation effort is made possible by the state legislature’s 2019 approval of $6.3 million in Trust Land Transfer funds to reimburse the timber trusts and buy replacement lands.
Dabob Bay is one of the last pristine areas left on the Olympic Peninsula and should be carefully preserved. The recently expanded Dabob Bay Natural Area includes globally imperiled
plant communities such as Lemonds Forest and others, sensitive shorelines such as the Thorndyke Bay Saltwater Estuary and the upland forest wildlife corridor across the Toandos Peninsula
(which connects Thorndyke Bay with Dabob Bay).
Again, my sister Joan and I urge the DNR to approve the Inter-Trust Exchange and Trust Land Transfer proposal for protecting state lands within the expanded Dabob Bay Natural Area.
Stephen Lemonds
19010 34th Ave NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
Joan Lemonds Roush
1311 Lemonds Dr.
Quilcene, WA 98376