So what do you do when your home town Port Authority decides to bring a new
steel mill next to one of the premier shorebird staging areas on the Pacific
coast? (Yes, Bowerman Basin)

So what do you do when the plan is to replace a sewage lagoon and an
airfield with a storage rail yard? (Yes, the Hoquiam sewage lagoon, and
Bowerman field).

So what do you do when they "may" plan to offer as mitigation a Refuge
visitor center and a completed boardwalk?

So what do you do when you sponsor a Spring shorebird festival?

So what do you do when you want to remain a good neighbor, and support job
growth?

So what do you do when all the politicians are lining up in support of the
steel mill? (Yes, including the governor and the local Democratic congressman)

So what do you do when you love shorebirds?

a. weep
b. move
c. fight
d. make the best of it

David Beatty
Grays Harbor Audubon
DJ Beatty