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From: Tom and Margo [tmwyckoff@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:25 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Cc: Fabian
SubJect: Jefferson County Shorelines Master Plan Comments
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Jeanie Orr
We are opposed to any updating of the Shoreline Master Plan which would permit mining activities including
conveyer belts, piers, and barges which would transport mining extractions upon the pristine waters of Hood
Canal. The entire Hood Canal has been designated as a "Shoreline of State-Wide Significance" and is known
nationally as one of the "last best places". Unfortunately, as We know you are aware, the ecosystem is always in
delicate balance and we urge that the sort of activities utilized by mining activities not be permitted to pose the
risk of a "tipping point" toward marine ecological degradation.
We have participated with others in multiple citizen and governmental efforts since the early 1970's which have
resulted in Hood Canal being, although threatened, in far better shape than much of Puget Sound. We are
grateful to the County for its past endeavors to assure the continued health of Hood Canal and urge the
continuation of good ecological stewardship. The intensive use required by mining and barging is incompatible
with both the history and future of efforts to assure that Hood Canal survives and nutures all of us with its
grandeur and environmental bounty.
We urge you to not allow industrialization of this national treasure and to prohibit mining activities along the
shoreline of Hood Canal and any other shoreline of state-wide significence within the County's jurisdiction.
Sincerely,
Drs. Margo and Tom Wyckoff
Sea beck, Washington.
1/28/2009