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Voice of the Wild Olympics, Winter 2014 VOICE of the WILD OLYMPICS Olympic Park Associates Founded in 1948 Volume 22 Number 1 Winter 2013-2014 Contents Book Reviews: Ascendance 3 Katie Gale 11 Remembrances: 4 Patrick Goldsworthy Phil Zalesky Update: Wild Olympics Campaign 5 Ancient Temperate Rainforest in the South Quinault Ridge Proposed Wilderness, Olympic National Forest. Wilderness Gifts: Water 6 Photo from Wild Olympics Campaign Olympic National Park’s Vanishing Glaciers 7 Olympics Bill Introduced in Congress Citizen Science: Marmot Survey 8 Senator Murray and Representative Kilmer Update: Team Up to Protect Olympic Wildlands & Rivers Spotted Owls Decline 9 In January OPA joined conservationists Popular roadless areas that would receive OPA’s New Trustees 10 across the Northwest celebrating the intro- wilderness protection in the legislation include: duction of the Wild Olympics Wilderness Deer Ridge, Lower Graywolf, Upper Dunge- Celebrate and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2014. ness, Mount Townsend North, Dosewallips Wilderness Act’s 50th The bill, similar to the one introduced and Jupiter Ridges, Mounts Ellinore and with Great Old Broads 10 by Senator Murray and Representative Washington, South Fork Skokomish River, Dicks in 2012, would permanently pro- Moonlight Dome, South Quinault Ridge, Rug- Federal Closures: tect more than 126,000 acres of new Impacts on Peninsula 11 wilderness in Olympic National Forest. ged Ridge, and Gates of the Elwha. OPA and In addition, it would also protect 19 Wild our sister conservation organizations have Poem: and Scenic Rivers in the national forest and been working to protect most of these areas Plunging into the Wild 12 the national park, the first ever designated for decades. in the Olympics. Continued on P. 3, Olympics Bill Voice OF THE WILD OLYMPICS OPA Meetings: Olympic Park Associates Next: 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Board of Trustees Place: Kingston Community Center *Executive Committee Please join us. OPA members are always welcome at Board President meetings. *Donna Osseward Seattle Regular Meetings: The regular OPA Board meetings are at 6 pm in the Kingston Community Center on the 4th Tuesday of odd-numbered Vice President months, except the 3rd Tuesday in Novermber to avoid Thanksgiving, *Tim McNulty Sequim and no meeting in July. Secretary *John Bridge Edmonds Treasurer Congressional Contacts: *Tom Bihn Port Angeles *Paul Crawford Port Angeles (202) 224-3121 to reach any member of the U.S. Congress Llyn DeDannan Oyster Bay *Polly Dyer Seattle US Senate, Washington DC 20510 www.senate.gov David Friedman Seattle Senator Patty Murray Ron Good Port Townsend Phone (DC): 202-224-2621 Ben Greuel Seattle Fax: 202-224-0238 Daniel Lieberman Port Angeles Seattle: 206-553-5545 Joe Mentor, Jr. Seattle http://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contactme Bruce Moorhead Port Angeles Senator Maria Cantwell Sally Soest Seattle Phone (DC): 202-224-3441 Shelley Spalding Shelton Fax: 202-228-0514 *John Woolley Sequim Seattle: 206-220-6400 Laura Zalesky Mill Creek http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-maria Advisory Board Members Dick Goin Port Angeles Randall Payne Renton US House of Representatives, Washington DC 20515 Mary Peck Santa Fe Rick Rutz Friday Harbor 1 Rep. Suzan DelBene (D) 6 Rep. Derek Kilmer (D) Jim Scarborough Bellingham 318 Cannon HOB 1429 Longworth HOB Norman Winn Seattle P 202-225-6311 P 202-225-5916 F 202-225-1606 F 2253-593-6651 Membership Chair WA: 425-252-3188 https://kilmer.house.gov/contact/ Laura Zalesky 14905 Bothell-Everett https://delbene.house.gov/contact- emil-me Hwy, # 270 me/email-me Mill Creek, WA 98012 7 Rep. Jim McDermott (D) Newsletter Editor 2 Rep. Rick Larsen (D) 1035 Longworth HOB Sally W. Soest 725 9th Ave., #1407 2113 Rayburn HOB P 202-225-3106 P 202-225-2605 F 202-225-6197 Seattle, WA 98104 F 202-225-4420 https://forms.house.gov/mcdermott/ OPA’s Web Page WA: 425-252-3188 webforms/new/contact.shtml www.olympicparkassociates.org https://larsen.house.gov/contact-rick/ email-rick 8 Rep. David G. Reichert 1127 Longworth HOB 3 Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) P 202-225-7761 1130 Longworth HOB F 202-225-4282 Voice OF THE WILD OLYMPICS P 202-225-3536 https://reichert.house.gov/contact- is published three times per year by Olympic Park Associ- F 202-225-3478 me ates. Unless specifically copyrighted, articles may be re- http://herrerabeutler.house.gov/ printed without permission. However, credit is appreciated. contact/ 9 Rep. Adam Smith OPA membership dues are tax-deductible 12264 Russell HOB $20 for individuals 4 Representative Doc Hastings (R) P 202-225-8901 $25 for families 1203 Longworth HOB F 202-225-5893 $35 (or more) contributing member P 202-225-5816 http://adamsmith.house.gov/contact $50 for organizations F 202-225-3251 http://hastings.house.gov/contact/ $5 for students & low income individuals 10 Rep. Denny Heck $250 for an individual life membership. 425 Cannon HOB 5 Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers P 202-225-9740 Printed by Abracadabra Printing 203 Cannon HOB F 202-225-0129 Washington, DC 20515-4705 on acid- & chlorine-free FSC-certified paper, https://dennyheck.house.gov/ 10% recycled, P 202-225-2006 contact/email-me F 202-225-3392 30% post-consumer waste. http://mcmorrisforms.house.gov 2 NEWSLETTER OF OLYMPIC PARK ASSOCIATES Olympics Bill Introduced (Continued from P, 1) “Senator Murray and Representative generations,” said Senator Patty Murray. Kilmer deserve tremendous thanks for “This plan is the result of several years of working to ensure that our beloved Olympic negotiation and compromise... [It] is a step Peninsula will be here for our grandchil- in the right direction to protect our most trea- dren,” said Connie Gallant, chair of the Wild sured places for our kids and grandkids, and Olympics Coalition. “This landmark legisla- I look forward to working with Representative tion will protect the Olympic Peninsula’s Kilmer to pass this bill into law.” ancient forests, free-flowing rivers and The bill comes at the peak of Wild stunning scenery for all time. It will safeguard Olympics' popularity. The proposal is critical salmon habitat and sources of clean endorsed by 38 conservation and civic drinking water for our local communities, organizations and more than 3,470 local protecting our unmatched quality of life on supporters including businesses, farms, the Peninsula." faith leaders, local elected officials, hunting, Also included in the bill as “Potential fishing and recreation groups. In addition, Wilderness" are 5,346 acres of previously more than 50 current and past elected roaded and logged lands. They will become officials on the Peninsula have endorsed Wilderness if the Forest Service completes the proposal – along with over ten thousand restoration under current management plans. individuals statewide. Representative Kilmer and Senator The work is far from done, however. As Murray and their staffs conducted exten- OPA vice president Tim McNulty stated when sive conversations with a wide spectrum of the bill was introduced, "Today is a day to interests on the Peninsula. And they went to celebrate, but now we must work to get this great lengths to insure that lands included important legislation passed by Congress in the bill would have minimal effect on the and signed into law. Future generations Peninsula's timber sector. Nearly all these deserve no less.” lands are off-limits to logging and road build- Look to future issues of the Voice, ing under existing forest rules. Wilderness OPA’s website <www.olympicparkassociates.org>, designation would give these areas perma- and the Wild Olympics website <www.wildolympics.org> nent, lasting protection. to keep abreast of this important legislation. "I reject the proposition that we must choose between economic growth and envi- To read the bill, go to ronmental protection," said Representative Congress.gov and look for Senate Bill 1949 or House Bill 3922, Kilmer upon introducing the bill. "After or click on http://beta.congress.gov/bill/ conversations with the Forest Service and 113th-congress/senate-bill/1949. timber industry, I'm convinced that nearly all Forest Service land proposed for wilder- ness would never be commercially harvested and that these designations won't harm the timber industry... [The bill] will protect the Peninsula's most sensitive lands and waters for future generations while protect- ing access to outdoor recreation and private landowners' rights." Kayakers and Waterfall on East Fork Humptulips “The Olympic Peninsula’s wild spaces Proposed Wild & Scenic are among Washington State’s crown jewels, River, Olympic National and the Wild Olympics proposal supports the Forest. Photo by Tom foundation of conservation developed over O’Keefe. Book Review: Ascendance by Tim McNulty, Vice President, Olympic Park Associates Pleasure Boat Studio, 10/2013 ISBN-13: 9781929355938 $16.00 Tim McNulty’s third poetry collection explores themes of family, friendship, work, and solitude--all within the larger context of the natural world. McNulty’s clear voice and attentive eye bring the people, landscapes, and creatures that inhabit these poems vividly to life. 3 Voice OF THE WILD OLYMPICS With the Passing of Pat Goldsworthy and Phil Zalesky, OPA and the Northwest Say Farewell to Two Conservation Giants Olympic Park Associates felt a double North Cascades Conservation Council, OPA, loss last fall as two of our longtime guiding Pilchuck Audubon, and others. lights passed away. Patrick Goldsworthy and Based on his experience with OPA, Phil Philip Zalesky were conservation leaders became the founding president of the North and inspirational figures on the OPA board Cascades Conservation Council. for decades. Their political acuity and Northwest conservation history reached In the Olympics, Phil was just as effec- back to the passage of the Wilderness Act tive. In the 1950s, along with Pat, Carsten of 1964 and the creation of North Cascades Lien, and other conservationists, he worked National Park.
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