Maureen

Are you a member of the local Audubon group or do you know who the chair is
for the conservation committee? Obviously if there is something underhand
going on here it needs to be exposed, maybe the conservation chair already
knows this is happening? I think the chair is Bruce Harpham at the Rainier
Audubon society for your area? Drop him a line first and see what he thinks
mailto:brucelaura at msn.com
I will forward this as well.....
If a proper EIS was never issued then they would have many problems I'm
sure.
Also writing to the local council to see the status of the development will
give a lot of information.
I have just received an issuance of a draft supplemental environmental
impact statement for the "Bear creek parkway" project I'm working on for
Redmond so they have to do this!!

Regards

Martyn

Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
N47.65543 W121.98428
Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!

The Spring is cum
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

The birdies on the wing!
Nah, that's absoid
D' wing is on d' boid!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maureen Ellis [mailto:mj2ephd at u.washington.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 6:47 PM
To: Martyn Stewart
Cc: teresa.puccina at verizon.net; Tweeters News Group
Subject: RE: human overpopulation

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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as you do at conclusions." ____Ben Franklin

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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.
>
>
>
> As they say,
>
>
>
> "Save the environment, plant a Bush back in Texas"
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Martyn
>
>
>
> Martyn Stewart
>
> Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
>
> http://www.naturesound.org
>
> N47.65543 W121.98428
>
> Redmond. Washington. USA
>
> Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
>
>
>
> The Spring is cum
> The grass is riz
> I wonder where the birdies is?
>
> The birdies on the wing!
> Nah, that's absoid
> D' wing is on d' boid!
>
.............................................................................
> ........
>
> _____
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any kind of effort going on to do something about humans and
> housing developments?
>
> 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.
>
> Where I live used to be considered rural, lots of woods, now it's urban,
> typical of western Washington.
>
> I can't see any good outcome for insect eating woodpeckers.
>
> Nobody wants dead trees on their property to fall on the house or on the
> fence.
>
> Nobody wants carpenter ants in dead trees because they eventually want to
> make new colonies in the house.
>
> Problem I may be facing soon, too many are coming in the house this year.
>
> There was a nice wooded area near my house, gone last year, more houses.
>
> Can anything be done to address this problem of woods being destroyed for
> houses?
>
> Teresa
>
>
>
>