Dear Martyn and Teresa and Tweeters all,

We who live on the edge of Seahurst Park in Burien are also facing a 10
acre high density apt development that will destroy acres of buffer woods
with old second/third growth of highly diverse forest. There is also a
wetland that would be impacted immediately adjacent plus a very much
cherished loop of a main trail in the north part of contiguous Seahurst
Forest. This kind of madness is everywhere. We are hoping to get this
development stopped as a proper EIS was never done, and much 'under the
table' favor-swapping occurred amongst the developers and certain elected
officials. They know who they are. The condominium complex where I live
on the boundary of the Seahurst forest lands should have NEVER been
permitted either. Bitter hindsight...What can I say?
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Maureen Ellis, PhD, Research Scientist
Woods Lab, Toxicology Group at Roos 1, Box 354695
Lab/Office phone: 206-685-1938 Email: mj2ephd at u.washington.edu
DEOHS, SPHCM, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Martyn Stewart wrote:

> This is something that is close to my Heart Teresa, unbelievable greed in my
> book, the amount of houses that are going up and standing empty for months,
> look at the Sammamish Plato, there are houses that remain empty for 4 years,
> they replaced some wetlands that had existed for hundreds of years, the only
> thing in my book that you can do is join local conservation groups, maybe
> Audubon etc and vote correctly starting with getting this Bush idiot out.
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> As they say,
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> "Save the environment, plant a Bush back in Texas"
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> Regards
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> Martyn
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> Martyn Stewart
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> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
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> The Spring is cum
> The grass is riz
> I wonder where the birdies is?
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> The birdies on the wing!
> Nah, that's absoid
> D' wing is on d' boid!
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> From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
> [mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Teresa Thompson
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:32 PM
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: human overpopulation
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> Hi,
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> Is there any kind of effort going on to do something about humans and
> housing developments?
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> I realize there won't be any kind of effort by the government to discourage
> overpopulation since the tax dollars are needed.
>
> But what about the housing developments that are constantly going up
> everywhere.
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> Where I live used to be considered rural, lots of woods, now it's urban,
> typical of western Washington.
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> I can't see any good outcome for insect eating woodpeckers.
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> Nobody wants dead trees on their property to fall on the house or on the
> fence.
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> Nobody wants carpenter ants in dead trees because they eventually want to
> make new colonies in the house.
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> Problem I may be facing soon, too many are coming in the house this year.
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> There was a nice wooded area near my house, gone last year, more houses.
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> Can anything be done to address this problem of woods being destroyed for
> houses?
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> Teresa
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