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Monday, January 26, 20092:21 PM
#Long-Range Planning
Proposed Mining on Hood Canal
Dear Sir(s) - I undertand the county is in the process of updating your Shoreline Master
Plan - which currently permits mining activities.
Allowing mining on Hood Canal would be a travesty. See below...
Back in the 1970's Mason County issued a permit for such an operation at the mouth of the
Hamma Hamma River. This action was overturned by the Shorelines Hearings Board which
stated that:
"Intensive land uses or developments within the shoreline of Hood Canal, a shoreline of
state-wide significance, should be discouraged or prohibited. It is difficult to perceive
a use more intensive and incompatible with the present shoreline and aesthetics of Hood
Canal than the construction proposed by the Company. The pier, conveyor and barge
facility will intrude upon the magnificent grandeur that is now existent, converting the
natural characteristics and beauty of the existing shoreline into one marred by this
proposed industrial enterprise."
We should be even smarter and wiser today as we witness the massive expense required to
clean up the rest of Puget Sound. Hood Canal remains a pristine waterway, virtually void
of commercial shipping of any kind. It's shoreline is not yet marred by
industrialization. We should not allow private interests, whose motives are purely
financial, to destroy this gift of nature.
Regards,
Clark Casebolt
2008 recipient of National Geographic Adv. Magazine "200 Best Travel =0 D Adventure
Companies." Outdoor Odysseys has been offering quality hand-crafted kayak tours for 22
years.
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