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The tales trails can tell There are two new trails on Lopez this year and they have interesting stories. First, when “Six,” a resident of Hamlet House, wanted to visit the Lopez Island Medical Clinic, he got his walker and oxygen bottle and hiked down Village Road, sharing the roadway with trucks, SUVs and fast drivers. Lopez Community Trails Network was concerned about this dangerous situation. County Public Works Department had no plans or funds to solve this problem, so LCTN volunteered to pay for and build a trail from the Hamlet to the clinic. Today there is a trail along Village Road, on either side of the entrance to Lopez Village Market, within the road right of way. Funds and labor were donated. LCTN was helped by many employees of Public Works, Aaron Dye of LVM, the Hamlet, Lopez Sand and Gravel and the Hancocks whose property adjoins the trail. There are plans to extend it all the
way to Washburn Place. The second trail is actually the “first” trail for LCTN as it was this idea that sparked the organization of Lopez Community Trails Network three years ago. Eric Hall had the idea of connecting Hummel Lake with Spencer Spit with a walking route by building a trail from Port Stanley Road to Bakerview Road. That way you could walk from the Hummel Lake Reserve at Center Road all the way to Spencer Spit. Public Works, who owns the old landfill site on Point Stanley Road, generously agreed to give an easement for a trail along the south border of the landfill site. Partnering with San Juan County Land Bank, LCTN planned, designed and has almost completed the first part of that connection. It’s a public trail, so give it a try. It’s just south of the entrance to the landfill site. There will be a “Love Your Trail” work party at the Landfill Trail on Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. We’ll
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be removing some fencing and cleaning up debris. Bring warm clothes, gloves and old clothes. There will be a public meeting at Woodman Hall on Feb. 9 at 3 p.m. when LCTN will present the results of the survey about trails that was conducted last May. A trail policy statement will be developed from the discussion. Just like San Juan Island Trails Committee and Orcas Pathways, we will submit that policy statement to the San Juan County Council to be adopted as a resolution. A trail building clinic, taught by professionals from the Washington Trails Association with help from the Bureau of Land Management and San Juan County Land Bank, is being planned for the spring. It will be open to anyone,
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Bob Walker of LCTN with a group of Burlington student volunteers at the Landfill Trail site. especially trails groups and other stakeholders in trails throughout San Juan County, like Parks, Public Works, and conservation organizations. It will be a three-day
event and cover planning, design, construction and maintenance of trails. Stay tuned for announcements. LCTN meets bi-monthly. There’s a website with more
information: LopezTrails. org. LCTN has sponsored trail building classes, National Trails Day events, as well as planning, designing and constructing trails.
Islanders get first crack at camping reservations at San Juan County Parks San Juan County Parks is continuing its “residents only” opportunity to prereserve campsites at county parks in 2013. This year, the county parks program offers local residents a chance to make prime-time summer camping reservations between Jan. 14 and Feb. 28. The
offer is available for camping at county managed parks on San Juan, Lopez (Odlin), and Shaw islands, and at the county fairgrounds R.V. campsites. Camping reservations for the general public will begin March 1. All three county campgrounds are located in water-
front parks with spectacular views, beautiful beaches, and small craft boat launches. The fairgrounds offer R.V. camping with water and electrical hook-ups, close proximity to downtown Friday Harbor and a public beach (Jackson Beach). Scheduled campground renovation and road construction at Odlin County Park on Lopez Island during the summer season, May 1 through July 31, may impact
campers. Camping rates will be discounted 20 percent at Odlin during construction. Proof of residency is required for the residentsonly early reservation program. Info is available on the county parks website: sanjuanco.com/Parks/ camping.aspx. Local residents can email (parks@sanjuanco.com) or call the Parks Department, 378‑8420, for a reservation form.
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Letters Support for Byers When we first discovered the San Juan Islands, we – like many others – were primarily attracted to their natural beauty. But after living here for over 12 years, what keeps
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us so attached to this beautiful place has more to do with the dynamic sense of community that thrives here. This is why we are supporting Lisa Byers for San Juan County Council. Under Lisa’s leadership, OPAL Community Land Trust has epitomized an approach that says, “not only can we do it, but we can do it better.” As Executive Director of OPAL Lisa has repeatedly demonstrated the success of a reasoned and multi-dimensional approach to accomplish goals that are in the best interest of the entire community. As a member of the county council we believe that Lisa will listen to all voices and attempt to make judgments that will not
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ing of “Symphony of the Soil,” Potluck starts 4 p.m., film starts at 4:30 p.m. Discussion following film (optional). The new feature film is by Deborah Koons Garcia, and is presented by Lopez Locavores, and cosponsors including Lopez Community Land Trust, Transition/Thrive Lopez, Food Masters Orcas Island and WSU Extension Friday Harbor. Celebrate GMO Free San Juan Islands victory
a.m. - 2 p.m., Woodmen Hall. Come and join us at Woodmen Hall, and bring your own craft along, or learn how to quill, or do origami, or make cards. There will be cookies. coffee and tea.
only benefit the majority of today’s county residents, but preserve what is best about this place for the future.
Byers has a proven record of using her skills and experience to achieve healthy discussion and outcome. If you don’t know much about her yet, please look into what she would bring to county council in the District 2 position. She has my vote. We need her on the council.
Harold Lentzner and Elsie Pamuk Orcas Island
We islanders sometimes boast that having no bridges makes these real islands. We kind of like that. But there’s one case where bridges are good. It’s the collaborative kind we need between nonprofits and businesses, and between islanders of divergent interests. Working as Director of OPAL Community Land Trust, or on such committees as her recent role on the solid waste committee, Lisa
Lopez Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings: Mondays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Wednesdays - 4 p.m. Women’s meeting at the fellowship hall at Grace Episcopal Church Fridays - 7:30 p.m. at the Children’s Center Saturdays - noon at the Children’s Center Contact phone number 468-2809
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I want to thank Lisa Byers for running for county council. Having served with her on the EPRC (Eastsound Planning Review Committee) for a number of years, I know first hand how she can be a thoughtful and diligent leader. Lisa is dedicated to the truly helpful things that are needed on Orcas and in the County. She is a remarkable manager, and her work with OPAL for almost two decades shows her ability to work through complex financial and regulatory matters. I hope you’ll join me in supporting Lisa Byers for county council. Joyce Burghardt Orcas Island
For the past six and a half years, I have served on the board of OPAL Community Land Trust, the organization for which Lisa Byers has been executive director for 17 years. Based on those years of working with Lisa, I enthusiastically urge you to vote for her for county council. Frankly, we will miss her at OPAL, but she is so remarkably good that the whole county deserves her. Here are my reasons:
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with your iPad, 2-5 p.m., Lopez Library. Learn to activate your new iPad (if needed), manage your iTunes account, access and download apps, and pick up tips and tricks to make the most effective use of your iPad. Participants must have an iPad 2 or later and an iTunes account. Bring or borrow a laptop from LIFRC. Instructor: Susan Young. Fee $25 if paid before 1/14. $30 after 1/14. Pre-registration required. Call LIFRC at 468-4117 or visit www.lifrc.org.
workshop: Using your IpadFirst, Lisa is – hands down – the most competent person I have ever worked with or for. She is thorough, works quickly but accurately, and has a gift for numbers (including budgets) and for making complex issues clear. She is always thoroughly prepared for any meeting, always comes ready to provide more background information should it be needed, and follows up with all decisions or questions immediately and completely. She is also remarkably creative in finding novel solutions to complex problems. If this sounds like an impossibly positive set of qualities, I can only assure you that this written description is less impressive than the actuality. Second, Lisa is a terrific listener. If you disagree with her, she doesn’t get defensive or insist on her own position; she hears you out, searches for points of agreement, asks good questions, and finds a way to reach consensus. Third, Lisa Byers has a deep and enduring commitment to the health of our community. As evidence of that commitment, she has participated in – and often chaired – innumerable committees and forums on Orcas
At Home & Away, 6-9 p.m., Lopez Library. While not a full replacement for a laptop, a lot can be doneo with this mobile device. Get your iPad ready for daily use including tips and tricks for using iOS 5 or later, as well as downloading and using apps that satisfy a variety of needs from lifestyle to productivity to travel. Basic familiarity with using your iPad, an iTunes account and an iPad2 or later req’d. Instructor: Susan Young. Fee $25 if paid before 1/14. $30 after 1/14. Pre-registration required. For more details call LIFRC at 468-4117 or visit www.lifrc.org.
and throughout the county. She understands the county’s strengths and weaknesses, and because of her broad involvement, she has a wide network of county residents on whom she can call for answers to questions or for assistance. San Juan County has a full array of tough problems to be solved. Lisa Byers is, above all, a supremely good problem solver. She will be a wonderful county counci person. Helen Bee Orcas Island
Concerns over coal We have many problems demanding our attention, but ocean acidification is one which could forever change our islands. Since the dawn of the industrial age, ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere, not only warming the planet but increasing ocean CO2 content by 30 percent. For years scientists have been reporting that CO2 absorption is causing seawater to be more acidic; this change is already destroying coral reefs and threatens the See letterS, page 8
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In the “Top Stories of 2012,” Weekly edition, Jan., 2, an islander at the Lopez meeting expressed health concerns about possible radiation from radio frequency, which is the mode of communication for wireless technology. The correct terminology that she was referring to is microwave frequency not radio.
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Lessons learned in Sandy Hook tragedy | Guest column By Bill Evans
Superintendent of Lopez Island School District
My heart is broken as I reflect upon the tragic events of Dec. 14, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn. That such innocent lives could so quickly and brutally be ripped from the tight fabric of that community and that school, is unimaginable to me. Early in my career I taught kindergarten and other primary grades and was an elementary principal for many years. I feel a heightened sense of grief as I remember the close and loving relationship I shared with the young children and their teachers and staff in the schools in which I served. To imagine such an event happening in any of the schools in which I worked, literally drops me to my knees in horror. It is tempting, and indeed was likely every administrator’s first reaction, to want to build an impenetrable wall around our schools to seal our children and staff from any and all real or imagined threats to their safety and well being. Any of us would do anything to protect our students and staff. Certainly we will all be looking carefully at our school security procedures and renewing our commitment to lock down drills and the like. We will take a much needed look at enhancing our security systems, from communications to door locks, and everything in between, and for those of us planning new construction, architectural drawings, to best secure
the safety of our students and staff. However, if there is anything we can learn from the horror of that December day at Sandy Hook Elementary, it is that even the best security systems will not guarantee protection from danger. Building thicker walls and higher fences, or arming the gatekeepers to the teeth, will not address the real issues and the real dangers that pervade our society and threaten the innocent. It is in the embrace of strangers that we will find our greatest protection and deterrent to danger. Strangers are the disenfranchised among us – those who are intentionally or unintentionally disenfranchised from the embrace of others, be it community, school, family, social services, politics, or the family of man. The stranger may look and be very much like us, and actually be daily among us, but anyone estranged by real or imagined differences imposed by self or others, may be a stranger to us. In address of Sandy Hook Elementary and other tragedies, I challenge us to find ways to embrace the strangers within our communities, our schools, our world. Let us reach out to the bully, the mentally ill, the disenfranchised immigrant alien, the poor, the victims, the abusers, the strangers within ourselves. A look at recent tragic examples of horror involving shootings at schools and elsewhere, by and large reveals the transgressors to be strangers in their commu-
Bill Evans nities, estranged by illness, anger, frustration, bullying, loneliness, or other manifestations of exclusion. At what point did our schools or other communities fail to embrace these strangers within? At what point did each of us fail to wrap our figurative or literal arms around the strangers among us? At what point did we fail to reach out to the disenfranchised with an offer of help, solace, welcome, or invitation? What more can/ could we do to build communities of hope, care, and compassion, to take in the strangers among us? Let us be as pro-active in our efforts to build caring communities as we are reactive in building walls and arming the gatekeepers. As an educator, dedicated to creating a better world through the meaningful education of young people, I believe it starts at school. I urge our schools to become even better at developing caring and compassionate environments and educational programs for all students and
All-islands ski bus debuts Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Mt. Baker Winter Ride Bus has been reborn and is offering rides to the winter wonderland of Mt. Baker for all ages, from all islands. The ski bus has run separately for years as an extra-curricular activity of the Orcas and San Juan Island school districts. This year, however, the program is being administered by the newly formed Orcas Island Park and Recreation District. More than 25 schools from around the region participate in Mt. Baker’s Winter Ride Program, which offers greatly discounted lessons, rentals and lift tickets. In the past, students from each island boarded their respective districts school buses in the ferry line and rode the sometimes partially filled bus there
and back. This year, however, will be different. With the collaboration of both Orcas and San Juan Island groups, the cost (to Orcas participants) has been reduced and the program has been saved. “Without this collaboration, neither Orcas nor the Friday Harbor groups would have been able to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity. It’s a great example of islanders coming together to provide a service to our islands’ families and residents,” said John Pachuta, Friday Harbor coordinator. This year, participants will walk on their respective ferries, rather than board a local bus. On the other side, a charter bus will be
create the skills in each of our students to recognize and embrace the strangers within. Let us renew our commitment to do what we do best – teach ... for life, for compassion, for tolerance, for equity and justice. Let us spend as much time teaching social skills and communitybuilding, as we do other basic skills. Let us worry less about assessing basic academic performance levels and focus as much upon assessing caring, kindness, and community-building skills, to better inform our instruction. Let us include tolerance and inclusivity in our required common core curriculums, as we teach to the whole child. Let us strive to create a generation that will model for the rest of us, a true democracy of care and community. It is the embrace of strangers, and the consequent conversion to membership of caring community, that will be our salvation from desperate acts of horror. Such embrace will be infinitely more powerful and protective than the strongest gates, highest walls, or most heavily armed fortresses we can ever create. So, while we are reviewing our security measures and procedures, let us also review our curriculums and programs that promote care and compassion. Won’t you join me?
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First-year status review; Mulcahy at the helm of Public Works By Steve Wehrly Journal reporter
Before Frank Mulcahy came to San Juan Island to be director of Public Works, he managed and planned military and civilian public works facilities as a U.S. Navy commander in Kosovo and Iraq. He had been to Friday Harbor several times while stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station — his wife grew up in Mount Vernon — and he didn’t hesitate to apply when he heard the director’s job was open.
“I knew there would be problems,” Mulcahy said recently, reflecting on his first 15 months as manager of the largest department of county government, “but so far none of them have involved live ammunition or explosions.” “The work and people aren’t that much different from the Navy,” Mulcahy says. “I learned early on to respect the people I worked for and the people that worked for me, and I think that has served me well since I arrived here.”
He started at Public Works in mid-October, 2011. Public Works is the county’s largest department, with 65 full-time employees and an annual budget of about $13 million. In addition to maintaining county owned roads, public works operates stormwater and solid waste utilities, coordinates engineering for public projects, maintains county owned buildings and property, and buys and maintains the county’s fleet of cars, trucks, heavy equipment and boats.
“Budgeting and funding are critical in both military and civilian settings,” he said. “Funding shortages and past problems meant we had to deal with current problems rather than planning for the future,” he says about his 15 months as director of Public Works for San Juan County. “Since I came here I’ve had to challenge assumptions and adjust to changing conditions,” Mulcahy said. One way Mulcahy adjusted was to communicate, both within Public Works and with
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the county council and the public. “I even write and send out communications myself, and people say they appreciate hearing directly from me,” he said. Emphasizing communications and respect have resulted in what Councilman Rich Peterson calls “rave reviews and no complaints” from the council. “He’s corrected historic problems at Public Works and restored public confidence,” Peterson says. Councilwoman Lovel Pratt liked the way “he’s stepped up to and dealt with the challenges he faced,” and Councilman Howie Rosenfeld praised Mulcahy as “a man of integrity.” Mulcahy said he manages operations with four resultoriented ideas in mind: pro-
ductivity, quality, morale and safety. “Productivity is not just working harder,” he says, “it’s working smarter, thinking of the future so you don’t have to re-do something you’ve already completed. Quality means doing the project better, thinking of what you’re doing as an investment.” Morale and safety are workplace necessities, he says. “You won’t get the productivity you want or the quality you expect if the people doing the work don’t feel good about their jobs or their boss, or are worried about their safety on the job,” Mulcahy says. Mulcahy thinks the 2012 big issue – solid waste collection and disposal, including transfer station operations – is “going well.” “I came here in October See Review, page 8
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Little evening concerts from King Louis XIV’s court On Saturday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. the third annual Salish Sea Early Music Festival begins on Lopez Island at Grace Church with The Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV, which will recreate the regular evening performances given for Louis XIV by the illustrious members of his Musique de la Chambre. Last spring in Paris Jeffrey Cohan found an elaborate and unknown manuscript of 770 pages entitled
“Suite des Symphonies: For the little evening concerts given for His Majesty (Louis XIV)” which was meticulously prepared in 1713 for the aging Louis XIV. It will be premiered by Cohan on the one-keyed flute, Joanna Blendulf of Eugene, Ore. on viola da gamba, Christine Wilkinsen on baroque violin and Steven Creswell on baroque viola. These works are to be heard for the first time since the 18th century
at the very low pitch of Louis’ court more than two tones below today’s pitch on instruments with which the king was familiar. The 2013 festival will present five performances on Lopez, and also in Eastsound and Friday Harbor, from January through June with some of the most accomplished performers on period instruments from Germany, Montreal, Eugene, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest.
The suggested donation for the upcoming show is $15, $20 or $25 for all concerts. Youth 18 and under are free, and the suggested donation for all other students is $5. For more info, call 468-3477 or visit www.salishseafestival.org. Contributed photo
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LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE SAN JUANS, Sundays at 9:00 a.m. in Center Church on Davis Bay Road. Also in Friday Harbor at 11:00 a.m. in St. David’s and in Eastsound at 1:15 p.m. in Emmanual. Pastor Anne Hall, 468-3025. QUAKER WORSHIP GROUP Meetings will be Sundays at 10 am at the home of Ron Metcalf, 6363 Fisherman Bay Road. Children’s program. Everyone welcome. Phone 468-2129. Email: lopezfriends@gmail.com ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH Come worship with us at Center Church on Davis Bay Rd. We welcome you to join us for Mass at 1:15 pm on Saturday. Call 3782910 for Mass times on San Juan and Orcas Islands.
cious, mysterious and potent. Its power lies, in part, in the model it represents – thriving, effective and sustainable community in action. Still wondering why should anyone want to see a film about soil? Find out for yourself: bring a potluck dish, your own utensils, and be ready to celebrate GMO Free San Juans and SWAP on Jan. 13 at Lopez Center for Community and the Arts. Potluck starts at 4 p.m., film starts at 4:45 p.m., optional discussion follows. Presented by Lopez Locavores film series. For more information and for a list of co-sponsors visit www.lopezlocavores.org or call Michele Heller at 4683618.
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Public Works Director Frank Mulcahy, right, discusses plans for upcoming project on Lopez Island. his Operations Manager, and Rachel Dietzmann, the county’s recently-appointed Chief Engineer. One of those investments he wants to start planning for is a county-wide network of bike paths and hiking trails. Getting bikes and runners off the road is not a new idea, said Trails Committee chairwoman Tracy Roberson, referring to an extensive 2006 plan produced by the committee. But it’s an idea that
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thinks Operations Manager Russ Harvey will conclude negotiations with ORS and Lautenbach Industries (the operating partner for San Juan Island) so that both the Orcas and San Juan island stations should be in private operation before April. That will leave Mulcahy free to focus on the future, which includes finding “substantial funding” for the road and storm water utility projects. “To get that money, we’ve got to plan projects now, and make them shovel ready when federal and state infrastructure money becomes available,” he says. “We’ll need to find two to three million dollars per year for the next six years to fund new road and storm water projects,” Mulcahy said. “But the good news is that 85 percent of the money will come from federal and state grant sources and I’m not afraid to ask the council and the voters to fund that other 15 percent.” “We need to think of future spending as investments in the county’s future, not just as taxes, taxes, taxes,” he added as he talked about future planning with Russ Harvey,
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knowing there had been problems,” he said. He says he tried to map out a strategy whether or not the council-proposed parcel fee to fund solid waste operations passed. “Whatever the vote, I knew that solid waste operations would have to change,” Mulcahy said. Failure of the property tax
increase meant shifting gears and, at the council’s direction, moving to contract with private operators for the Orcas and San Juan stations. “The success of the Lopez community in setting up their own solid waste operation showed what local initiative can do,” Mulcahy said, helping convince the county council that locally-based Orcas Recycling Services could put together a workable plan for operating the Orcas transfer station. Mulcahy
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Roberson, Peterson, Pratt and Rosenfeld enthusiastically endorsed, even as each council member recognized it as an expensive idea. “I’m confident that the various Public Works managers are running their divisions well,” said Mulcahy, “so now we can start working on things people once thought were impossible here.” “It’s all good,” Mulcahy concludes, using one of his favorite can-do expressions.
String of crime on Orcas Island By Colleen Smith Armstrong Editor/Publisher of the Sounder
The day before Christmas eve, jeweler Vance Stephens received a very unwelcome surprise. His shop Shinola on North Beach Road was broken into and robbed. “It’s very disappointing,” he said. “Like most people who live here, we have the illusion we live in a bubble of safety – away from the nasti-
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ness we see on television. But alas, it is not so.” A rock was thrown through the store’s front window and numerous hand-made jewelry pieces were stolen. Stephens says he and other island shop keepers have taken steps to upgrade their security. The Shinola breakin was one of six incidents in Eastsound over the last six weeks, according to Sheriff Rob Nou.
Both homes and businesses have been burglarized. Items stolen included alcohol, ammunition, household items, computers, flat screen televisions, kayaks and jewelry. “All of these were forced entry,” Nou said. Nou would not comment on any leads, but said it is an active investigation. He speculates the recent Orcas incidents are not tied
Nature Geoscience, Pteropods, small snail-like sea creatures important to many fish including pink salmon, are experiencing thinning and dissolution of their shells
resulting in increasing mortality. This is occurring at current pH levels, which is a level initially not expected to be reached until 2038. Any marine organism dependent on calcium carbonate for a shell or body parts is now at risk from acidification. Fish eggs and a host of organisms at the very base of the ocean’s food web are likewise threatened. In past epochs, mass extinctions occurred when the oceans became similarly acidic. However, because the chemical changes occurred over many centuries, the ancestors of today’s sea
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creatures were able to adapt. The present rapid chemical changes may not allow marine organisms to develop survival strategies. If we value the present oceanic biodiversity and food species, it would seem illogical to promote the use of a fuel associated with physical and economic damages linked to atmospheric and oceanic changes. We have until Jan. 21 to express our concerns about the transportation and burning of coal overseas. Lowering our planetary CO2 and other green house gas emissions could help save the biology, culture, and economy of our islands. See the Lopez or Orcas NO COALition, or the FRIENDS, web-sites for scoping comment assistance.
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