The Friends' office is closed for President's Day. In related news, Honest Abe has also been named best Prez in history.
On to environmental matters,
Excellent piece of journalisticating in the News Tribune today. The subject was gravel mining, perhaps the biggest of all Pacific Northwest & Puget Sound NIMBY natural resource extraction issues
Thanks to the ebb and flow of glacial ice over Western Washington during the past several millennia, gravel is a resource with which the Puget Sound region is naturally blessed.
But gravel mining on the shores of the Sound draws the wrath of environmentalists like almost no other activity. For adjacent landowners, few developments are more despised.
“Gravel pits are just big open wounds,” said Don Russell, an opponent of a mine expansion proposal near DuPont. “It’s as if somebody grabbed hold of your skin and ripped it off.”
The second in the series ran today
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