At 9:51 PM -0800 11/19/03, Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney wrote:
>Capital Lake Estuary Restoration: The State Capital Campus
>Committee has approved the development of an estuary feasibility
>study for Capital Lake. The Capital Lake Adaptive Management Plan
>called for such a study, but the

I personally would love to see the Descutes estuary restored, but
politcally, it's a non-starter, especially given how much they've
just spent on the park around the lake.

>I, for one, would rather bird the estuary of the Deschutes river -
>watching scoters and horned grebes - than the polluted waters of
>Capitol Lake - watching domestic mallard hybrids (now that they've
>'managed' the Canada geese away....).

Have you been there recently? Where else in the Oly vicinity can you
see a flock of scaup the size of the one now on Capitol Lake? Never
mind the Redheads (since I can't ever seem to find them anyway...).
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Rob Saecker
rsaecker at thurston.com