Bill Smith wrote:

> Jerry Blinn wrote,
> No.
> > 4. There are numerous "openings" to the Game Range
> > area from Marine View Drive. How does one determine
> > if any (or all) of those are legitimate public access? Some
> > of those openings have things like cable spool "picnic
> > tables" -- does that mean they are owned, or just well used?
>
> They're all owned in the sense that none are public property.
However,
> people of all interests regularly use those openings to view or
walk out
> onto the marsh or flats. It's not clear that even the
easternmost part of
> that marsh/flat area is public; some is owned by the Quinault
tribe, for
> example, who put up the fence on the west side of the road out
Damon Pt. to
> block a long-used parking area on their land. In general, I
would not
> worry about using this area so long as you are prepared to act
politely and
> to leave promptly if confronted.

That's not Quinault owned, it's a disgruntled non-Indian owner.
The Quinault
Land and Timber Enterprise now own the trailer court, the marina,
the store,
not the Silver King Motel, and the parcels on each side of the
Duck Lake. Now
QLTE has but up fences on the roads into the parcel north of the
outfall, but
definitely do not care if people continue to access the lot on
foot for fishing
or birding. QLTE just had to put up fences to reduce dumping,
wild driving, and
unauthorized camping.


>
> > 5. Is the sewer district currently allowing parking inside
> > the fence and access to the Game Range via their land?
> > (It's been a while, and things sure are looking different.)
>
>
>
> > 6. For humor only -- did they pave ~only~ the parts of the
> > Damon Point road that ~weren't~ pot-holed?
>
> The state committed ~ $1.2 mil. to pave the Damon Pt. road
before last
> winter, when the road washed out. In its wisdom, it chose not
to pave
> portions that might wash out again in the future, but to still
spend the
> money where the road didn't wash out before. Incidentally, in
yesterday's
> 11.2' high tide, both newly constructed culverts (where
previous washouts
> occurred) were flooded. The Damon Pt. "pond" is now an
estuary.
>

Right, but I don't quite understand the speed bumps at each end
of the paving.
The potholes are plenty to slow you down. If Parks wanted to slow
people down,
maybe speed bumps in the middle of the paved strips would be the
way.

At high tide yesterday, water was pouring into the pond from the
bay backwards
through the culverts. It used to be that the pond attracted a
certain mix of
fowl because it was only 4-8 ppm salt, but now it's going to be
the same mix
as the bay.

Paul Huffman
President-for-Life, Moclips Surf Club
Ocean Shores, WA