Subject: Fence at the Astoria Mitigation Bank
Date: Aug 24 10:27:57 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


If you drop by the mitigation bank over the next couple weeks
you'll notice a 10ft high fence going in. This fence is being
installed around the entire airport to exclude ELK. Apparently,
the FAA has a problem with the local elk herd feeding on the
runway and has required that the fence be built.

It is not clear how this will affect public access to the area,
the Port Manager is gone until next Thursday. The two people
I did talk to seemed to be very open to maintaining public
access and didn't think the wetlands access would be affected
at all.

I will keep everybody posted.

--
Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
celata at pacifier.com by an unkind establishment,
you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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