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The Journal of the North Cascades Conservation Council Summer/Fall 2006 THE WILD CASCADES THE JOURNAL OF THE NORTH CASCADES CONSERVATION COUNCIL SUMMER/FALL 2006 THE WILD CASCADES • Summer 2005 he North Cascades Conservation TCouncil was formed in 957 “To pro- tect and preserve the North Cascades’ sce- nic, scientific, recreational, educational, and wilderness values.” Continuing this mission, NCCC keeps government officials, THE WILD CASCADES Summer/Fall 2006 environmental organizations, and the gen- eral public informed about issues affecting the Greater North Cascades Ecosystem. In This Issue Action is pursued through legislative, legal, and public participation channels to protect the lands, waters, plants and wildlife. 3 The President’s Report — MARC BARDSLEY Over the past third of a century the NCCC has led or participated in campaigns 4 A Fire District (with Phone Service) for Stehekin? to create the North Cascades National Park — CAROLYN MCCONNELL Complex, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and other units of the National Wilderness System from the W.O. Douglas Wilderness So What’s Good about Global Warming — HARVEY MANNING north to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the Henry M. Jackson Wilderness, the Chelan- 5 Opportunity on the Whitechuck: An NCCC Proposal — RICK MCGUIRE Sawtooth Wilderness and others. Among its most dramatic victories has been work- 8 Wilderness in Washington: 964/987 — HARVEY MANNING ing with British Columbia allies to block the raising of Ross Dam, which would have drowned Big Beaver Valley. 10 Eco-Collaboration: Finding a Shared Vision with Who? — RICK MCGUIRE 14 2006 North Cascades Glacier Climate Project Field Season MEMBERSHIP — TOM HAMMOND The NCCC is supported by member dues and private donations. These sup- 18 Critical Wild Sky Inholding Purchased — RICK MCGUIRE port publication of The Wild Cascades and lobbying activities. (NCCC is a non- 19 Mineral Butte and Middle Fork Snowqualmie Roads Gated tax-deductible 50(c)4 organization.) — RICK MCGUIRE Membership dues for one year are: $0 - low income/student; $20 - regular; $25 - family; $50.00 - Contributing; $00 - pa- 20 Stevens Pass Ski Area to Apply for Permit Renewal, Expansion of tron; $000 - Sustaining. A one-time life Operations — RICK MCGUIRE membership dues payment is $500. COVER: Mt. Shuksan emerging from a summer snowstorm, The North Cascades Foundation sup- viewed from Lake Ann. — TOM HAMMOND ports the NCCC’s nonpolitical efforts. Donations are tax-deductible as a 50(c)3 organization. Please make your check(s) out to the organization of your choice. The Foundation can be reached through NCCC The Wild Cascades mailing address: Journal of the North Cascades Conservation Council North Cascades Conservation Council EDITORS: Betty Manning P.O. Box 95980 University Station Printing by EcoGraphics Seattle, WA 9845-2980 The Wild Cascades is published three times a year (Spring, Summer/Fall, Winter). NCCC Website NCCC members receive this journal. Address letters, comments, send articles to: www.northcascades.org The Wild Cascades Editor North Cascades Conservation Council University Station, Seattle, WA 9845-2980 The Wild Cascades is printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. 2 THE WILD CASCADES • Summer/Fall 2006 NCCC Board President Marc Bardsley Founded in 957 Board Chairman SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Patrick Goldsworthy Vice President Charles Ehlert The President’s Report Summer/Fall 2006 Treasurer Tom Brucker Recent media reports have described the unhappy news that our state Secretary parks officials in Washington State have, like so many other government Phil Zalesky agencies, decided to sell advertising. Obviously, this advertising would be a complete change from our usual concept of a natural appearing Bruce Barnbaum outdoors. The advertising would be in a form to be determined but could quite possibly be signs, name changes, corporate sponsorships, Polly Dyer or whatever you can imagine. John Edwards As you might expect, this information infuriated me to the point that I wrote an article for publication in this magazine deploring the practice Dave Fluharty and also relaying my infinite wisdom on how people could protest. I Karl Forsgaard said that we must write to the offending officials to cease and desist. Our folks should also back this up with reasoned letters to their elected Kevin Geraghty representatives extolling the virtues of fully funding agencies charged Tom Hammond with operating and maintaining parks and other public lands. Guess what! Lots of citizens had the same thought and bombarded the State Phil Leatherman Parks and Recreation Committee with their own opinions on the sub- Conway Leovy ject. The idea of using the parks to raise money through advertising has been rescinded. That, of course, is great. And my article was out-of-date Betty Manning before it reached the printer. Harvey Manning The second step of my original proposal is still valid however. Please Carolyn McConnell show similar vigor in writing to our state-elected politicos. Demand that they fully fund those agencies that are struggling to keep our natural Rick McGuire areas natural. The problem occurs at the national level, as well as at the Thom Peters state, county, and city levels. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about a scheme to sell public land, rent or lease it, manage it with private Ken Wilcox companies, close it down, charge higher fees, or somehow develop it Laura Zalesky for money. This outrageous lack of foresight and misplacing of financial priorities simply must stop. Please follow through with a letter to at least one of your representatives, demanding that they fully fund agencies responsible for stewardship of our public land. THE WILD CASCADES • Summer/Fall 2006 3 A Fire District (with Phone Service) for Stehekin? CAROLYN MCCONNELL Thanks to a week of cool, rainy weather, “When I arrived here 14 years ago, the component of a fire district. The latest on the the fire that threatened Stehekin for several question facing this community was whether phone scheme by Weavtel is that Weavtel has months has mostly smoldered out. As usual, the Park Service was going to allow the com- sued the Park Service. As readers may recall, it was Mother Nature, rather than human munity to continue to exist. Now, I’m pleased the Park originally denied Weavtel a permit firefighting, that took care of the fire. to say, that is no longer an issue. Now the to run its lines on public land, then reversed Despite escalating evacuation notices in question is whether this community is going itself (reportedly after lawyers warned the de- August and September, Stehekinites mostly to step up and be a community.” cision couldn’t hold up), granting the permit stayed put. Visitors were evacuated, tourists It was a bizarre remark. To repeat, yet again: conditional upon Weavtel getting easements prohibited from arriving, and, because near the Park never kicked anyone off their land in from private landowners whose land the lines the head of Lake Chelan, the fire had gotten Stehekin, never in any way did anything that would cross. Then Weavtel shifted its proposal very close to the road and boat dock, residents threatened the viability of the Stehekin com- to a mostly wireless system. In response the were barred from coming to the dock to pick munity, and indeed has instead presided over Park has said the new system will require an up mail and supplies. Instead, Chelan County a major development boom and a doubling or entire new environmental assessment. Word sheriff’s officers made deliveries upvalley. In tripling of the valley’s population. from the Park Service is that they are likely spite of the service, most residents weren’t To the extent a fire district encourages pri- to prevail and force Weavtel to pay for a new thrilled to have so much guvment suddenly vate property owners to take steps to reduce assessment. in Stehekin. fire hazards on their own property, I suppose Chelan County has so far held fast against It may have been a sign of things to come. it’s to the good. But it raises the specter of Weavtel’s request for permits and changes in The pressure is on for Stehekin to form a fire more bureaucracy and higher taxes for Stehek- flood plain maps for its proposed headquar- district, which, except for a school district, in. Still, I’m not sure the valley will be united ters building. But Weavtel was engaged in would be Stehekin’s first foray into having a around resisting it. The unified resistance to legal wrangling with the county as well and government. The pressure is coming from the the proposed phone system seems to have may by the time you read this have gained governor, who has warned the community weakened in the face of money to be made its permits. that she can’t release funds for firefighting in from the project and I fear the same motiva- Meanwhile, the Washington Utilities and an emergency unless the community forms tion may help the fire district along. Some in Transportation Commission is examining a fire district. At the meeting in Stehekin the Stehekin may support the fire district because Weavtel’s books and considering whether to governor attended, North Cascades National they see it as a form of localism to be used in open the spigot of funds the moment Weavtel Park Superintendent Bill Paleck also put the their struggles against the land protections gets a dial tone. pressure on. In the course of his speech he the Park is supposed to ensure. And so the march of progress in Stehekin made the following jaw-dropping comment. Incidentally, the fire district is likely to continues. spur the phone system, as 911 service is a So What’s Good about Global Warming? PALEck A July AP report from Bullfrog, Utah, said, The Colorado River basin is a source of “Lake Powell is barely half-full and taking a water for 25,000,000 people and irrigation for quarter less runoff than expected this year millions of acres from Colorado to California.
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