Pulp, PNW style

[northmanlogging]

They are building a house and shop, with drain field and extended driveway on a little under 1/2 acre.

The lake is actually on the other side of the road, Puget Sound, is about a mile on the other side of the tree line, not sure of the passage, but its about where Camano and Whidbey Is would have a convenient ferry line, except for that whole shallow water thing.

The lake is just another half acre parcel away though, when I was on boards cutting that co-dom I could see the water.

County decided that the back 75 feet or so would be left standing because there is a gully there that could potentially have water and therefore, because of the Oso slide, the trees can't be cut... This gully is about 60' deep and 200' wide, far from any kind of slide danger, but that is gub-a-mint for ya.

 

[northmanlogging]

Took another vid mon night, but it doesn't show much, gonna get my equipment moved and take another one that way everything is out of the way.

 

[madhatte]

County decided that the back 75 feet or so would be left standing because there is a gully there that could potentially have water and therefore, because of the Oso slide, the trees can't be cut... This gully is about 60' deep and 200' wide, far from any kind of slide danger, but that is gub-a-mint for ya.

At least it's the County, for once, recognizing their culpability. Now all they need is a GIS department and a geologist and administrators who trust their experts and make decisions accordingly. Same goes for Lewis County. They're still backfilling the floodplain and playing dumb as out-of-state money fills the coffers.

 

[slowp]

At least it's the County, for once, recognizing their culpability. Now all they need is a GIS department and a geologist and administrators who trust their experts and make decisions accordingly. Same goes for Lewis County. They're still backfilling the floodplain and playing dumb as out-of-state money fills the coffers.

Yes. Lewis County has allowed more fill to be dumped in a wetland where the box stores flooded. I like the Sonic Burgers, but are they worth diverting water to somewhere else, like a neighborhood? They've added or are in the process of adding these necessary businesses (all on fill dirt) Sonic, Dutch Bros. Coffee (there's already a Starbucks in the vicinity) and a Taco Bell. But wait, they've built access roads in that area so more fill can be added and more fast food outlets built! Apparently, two McDs, a Wendy's, a Taco Something, new Sonic, and Startbuck's are not enough. All are within one block of each other.

We should be planting trees and "restoring" what is left of that area.

 

[northmanlogging]

Well thats the thing, I don't believe they are culpable, the council totally overreacted to the Oso slide, blamed logging, and wont hear anything other reason. Keep in mind they instated these new rules just a few months after the slide, pushed em through because of the slide.

Meanwhile geologist hadn't settled on a reason for the slide.

2 years later or so, the geologist, hydrologist, and other ologist came to the conclusion that logging had little to do with that particlular slide and that it was do to the nature of the unstable slope, massive amounts of rainfall, and the river undercutting the bank...

Some slopes yes should be left forested, this however is not one of them.

 

[madhatte]

2 years later or so, the geologist, hydrologist, and other ologist came to the conclusion that logging had little to do with that particlular slide and that it was do to the nature of the unstable slope, massive amounts of rainfall, and the river undercutting the bank...

Some slopes yes should be left forested, this however is not one of them.

That's exactly my point about having a GIS dept and a geologist and trusting them and making decisions accordingly. Overreacting is not trusting your specialists.

 

[Joe46]

Overreacting seems to be the SOP now days as common sense becomes more uncommon.