Elaine Oneil

It makes no sense that Washington’s Department of Ecology has decided there can be no measurable temperature change at no time in no place on our forested headwater streams after timber harvest. They are willing to force a vote on a new rule at the Forest Practices Board. …Small forest landowners have been arguing against this proposed taking of private assets for nearly a decade. The Department of Ecology says it’s just enforcing the Clean Water Act, but the Clean Water Act doesn’t say that there can be no change at no time in no place — that is an interpretation by the Department of Ecology, and not a reasonable one. They also say it’s to protect the fish; there are no fish in these headwater streams. …Please join me as the Forest Practices Board takes their final vote on this matter on Nov. 12.