Folks,
Please see our new website:

www.friendsofseahurstpark.com/Site/Welcome.html

Our Burien neighborhoods around Seahurst Park are in a major fight to try
to prevent the destruction of a near 8 acre mature forest/watershed/long
established wildlife habitat that is contiguous with Seahurst Park. This
is a steep ravine/box canyon-type area that developers hope to cover with
a huge condo community, removing 75% of the current forest. Reminder:
This parcel is part of the rare and irreplaceable saltwater-coast,
forested, urban magical place called Seahurst Park (in Burien.) WHAT are
they thinking?

I've documented the varied species of nesting birds here from Great
Horned and Barred Owls to Pileated Woodpeckers to two species of
chickadees to thrushes and flycatchers and wrens and creepers and on and
on and on. Many swallow species are threatened now. We have Tree, Barn
and Violet-Green Swallows as summer residents in this area. The legal
issues in this case are complicated, extensive, and convoluted.

Please review our website. Perhaps, other areas of our region can be
encouraged and inspired to also have neighborhoods organize to protect
the remaining natural tracts. This is the 21st Century with attempts to
continue taking advantage of the ignorance/complacency of the past 200
years of development. We can't afford this anymore. Be aware.

Persisting, me2
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Opinions above are my own as a private citizen

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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