Here’s hoping your blog lights a fire that obliterates the homeless industrial/tribal complex that runs Clallam and especially PA in the next election.
I think it's even bigger than that. They want to ensure a low paid wage slave population that just simply wakes up every morning and goes to their low paid jobs.
Homeless don't make good waiters and servers. Got to put them in shelters paid for by the taxpayers then off they go to their minimum wage jobs at the Casinos and Gold Course and construction companies.
When Patty Murray says they want to "transfer this land back to Tribal ownership is not only the right thing to do, but it will support important Tribal-led habitat restoration and salmon recovery efforts, improving these precious ecosystems for everyone,” she's full of it. Never forget that whatever else the tribes are, first and foremost they care about themselves and not non-tribal entities. Throughout the West, and especially Alaska (where I lived for 15 years and was very involved in this), native and tribal entities have a track record of poor fish and wildlife management and doing whatever they can to reduce and/or eliminate the opportunities for the rest of us to participate -- even though non-tribal hunters and anglers pay the lion's share of the tab.
They simply had access to so much abundance their greed couldn't consume it all...but there WERE food wars periodically when salmon didn't return in numbers...as the sea level rose after last ice age the productive clam beds kept shrinking as water overtook them.
All over the inside passage of B.C. you can see down into the clear water how deep the old 'clam garden' structures are and how much larger areas they once occupied.
They did have to continuously add 'rip-rap' to the outer edges of the clam beds and the area of harvest got smaller as time went on, so there Were climate-induced stressors on the natives but that does not mean they were 'good stewards'.
They were/are exploiters just like the rest of humanity and we can see that playing out in current behavior.
If they thought/knew the salmon could be brought back to sufficient numbers why do they want net-pen fisheries?...TOTAL EXPLOITATION!
'The tribe' is proxy for NWO control and domination...that is all.😎
What a potpourri of local malfeasance, corruption, lies, and favored special interests. I am most appalled by the incessant climate alarmism (which is natural, and 10,000 years slow), that is used to LIE about justification to condemn coastal property, when it is the Tribe's breaching of a protective dike on the creek that is the cause of increased flooding.
It all makes me ask, "When is it time to tar and feather those responsible for the deceit and corruption plaguing our county?" These miscreants are not accountable for their actions and corruption, while naive, uninformed and misinformed voters keep re-electing them. We MUST restore consequences to our ethics laws!
If it don't fit on a bumper sticker it's not my source of news. If I see it on Tik Tok I believe. If it's angry and blames T I believe it. Tax the Rich. Pay your Fair Share. Climate Change. Shoreline Resiliency. YOU are to blame you people who've worked your whole lives! Now hand me another. Now let's get boofing.
See MK Ultra program...still alive and well under different names...it might shine some light on the mass-mind-set ripping through the country and around the world.
3 generations have been mind-controlled through media and universities...not all of course but apparently Enough! The 'vulnerable' are especially targeted because they don't have strong family or community backgrounds so are more easily mind-altered.
These beings are not going to respond to logic or rationale...there is no debate possible...only action and reaction.
Forks' main store has had major upset in supply chain due to hacking of the main suppliers computer network.
You might want a few extra cans of food around...JIC.😊
Colleen is a generational real estate (Re/Max) agent and property management service turned "land developer", basically. She is from this area. I see alterior motives in her actions.
Having grants for "rent assistance" would benefit her, as it would provide more funds for investment clients (people who buy homes here to rent). "44 families on the waiting list for housing" and "Rise in senior homelessness" play into this plan, also. If people who can afford the homes come in and BUY the homes, making sure that they will be paid from potential renters and with a great turn-over (as seniors aren't alway as long-term renter), then she can rack up the real estate commissions. So much going on here.
Sequim, being a retirement community, is a great money-maker for real estate companies.
During the CVD lockdown the "coffee show" did a zoom show and had a developer as guest talk about building affordable housing... the guess opening admitted he needed to make X million per project in order to develop housing. Don't know if there were any RFP request for proposals during that time, but I do know openly talking about the amount you seek for projects for govt contracts is verboten.
My name is John Worthington, and I live in Sequim Washington, which is in Clallam County, Washington. I am writing to the Committee on Indian Affairs to inform them that my treaty rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855, have been systematically taken away by a consortium of unregistered international ICLEI agents, federal agencies, members of Congress, local tribes, state agencies, and local officials. This consortium has also usurped the authority of Congress to deal with tribal and foreign affairs. Their violations of Article V and IX of the Point No Point Treaty of 1855 began in 2001. Every year since 2001, the consortium has altered the original terms of the Point No Point Treaty of 1855 and have misused 20 years of federal grant money to undermine my non-tribal rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855.
This “consortium” operates under the Washington State statutory provision creating the the Puget Sound Partnership. That statute is RCW 90.71.210. The consortium operates locally in Clallam County under the language “an ecosystem coordination board.” The local “ecosystem coordination board” for Clallam County is Strait Ecosystems Recovery Network (SERN) as shown in the link: https://www.psp.wa.gov/LIO-overview.php
In SERN, this “consortium” consists of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington State Conservation District. This “consortium” is also consists of federal agencies Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, US Army Corp of Engineers, US Coast Guard Sector Seattle, US Fish and Wildlife Service. The consortium also consists of Tribal Nations Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Makah Tribe. The consortium also consists of County governments under ICLEI agreement or affiliation, Jefferson County and Clallam County. The consortium also consists of City governments under ICLEI agreement or affiliation, City of Port Angeles, City of Sequim and City of Port Townsend. The consortium also consists of numerous non-profit and Non-Government Organizations. https://www.straitern.org/aboutus There is also another Non-Government Organization called North Olympic Development Council (NODC). NODC is another overlapping consortium that is also a member of SERN. https://www.noprcd.org/about#OURTEAM There is yet another NGO called North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity for Salmon (NOPLE). NOPLE is similar to SERN and has US Fish & Wildlife Service , US Forest Service, state ,tribal , county, city and non-profit components.
Since 2001, SERN, NODC, and NOPLE have been and still are loaded with ICLEI Charter members, who have agreed to create a “compensation mechanism” to heal a “bad relationship” as part of a “Restorative Justice” plan. https://icleiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Equity_-First-Steps-Guide.pdf It has been this 24 year “Restorative Justice” plan, that has undermined my Point No Point Treaty of 1855. Members of Congress, Derek Kilmer, Maria Cantwell, and Patty Murray have routinely furnished the consortium with funding and tools to achieve this “Restorative Justice.” This “Restorative Justice” effort began in 2001 and continues to this day. Everything being done in the name of “Restorative Justice” is unconstitutional and is violating my treaty rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855. My local government has been assimilated and commandeered by the consortium to “implement” SERN, NODC and NOPLE policy. I do not have input on public policy. On a weekly basis, my county government public policy promulgation mechanism meets to pretend they are conducting real time policy promulgation, but in reality, they are just “implementing” public policy already decided by the consortium of SERN, NODC, and NOPLE.
Congress must step in to restore the American process and preserve my rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855.
The quote about black homeownership is from Humanity's International policy, local family selection in CC still uses the HUD-style, blind-scoring matrix. Look at the 2023 audit. Racial quotas are neither used nor permitted under HFHI policy.
2. Friends of Dungeness "tossed out".
--USFWS retains statutory management of the refuge. The refuge isn't "now run by the tribe".
--The volunteer board dissolved because the average age of active members was 78, and USFWS is gonna consolidate the five tiny groups into one large Olympic Peninsula Friends Group according to an email from acting refuge manager Trevor Sheffels. The Friends board supported the co-stewardship.
3. Port Townsend mill vs. McKinley closure
--McKinleys shutdown was due to global pulp price which collapsed and due in part to China's scrap-paper ban, not "county leaders".
--PT Mill survived not due to special incentives, but because it makes kraft pulp and corrugated medium, a completely different product line.
4. Net Pens
--Chile farms non-native atlantic salmon in fjords with minimal current, so escapes are invasive.
--The jamestown tribe is proposing native rainbow/steelhead in deep-water net pens with mandatory "escape prevention and recapture plan".
5. Juvenile True Star
--True Star is being merged with the State's new Behavioral Health Services for Youth, and will keep all eight counselor positions. It also increases the medicaid match from 50% to 70%.
--The $230 pizza is for Drug Court Graduation ceremonies. Drug Court recidivism in Clallam County as a result? 12%, versus 38% for non-participants. Drug Court works to prevent crime and burden on our court and jail systems. Facts matter.
6. Trust transfer removes land from tax rolls
--the 1,082 acres are Olympic National Forest, which are already tax-exempt. Again, grievance politics is CCWD's forte.
7. Peninsula College courses
--the tribal language courses are a requirement of a grant the college applied for, not money spent by the college's general fund.
--the hospitality BAS program is paused while they search for a new lead as the old faculty retired, not permanently ended due to budget cuts.
--4 french language classes were cut due to low enrollment.
8. 3 Crabs road
--the "mass casualty" event is contradicted by publicly available engineering files.
--mitigation options include: elevation, retrofit, or VOLUNTARY acquisition of houses.
--there is no call for forced relocation or mass buy-outs.
Clallam County has actual fiscal and policy problems, hardly anyone disputes that, but the problems won't be solved if people are distracted with recycled rumors, misreading of shoreline photos, and framing every federal-state-tribal action as if you're part of a Tom Clancy spy novel.
Let’s stop pretending that the people raising concerns are confused, misinformed, or living in a spy novel.
We know what we’re seeing because we’ve lived here long enough to recognize when something’s changing beneath the surface. It’s not just about one refuge, or one road, or one policy. It’s about a pattern.
You say the Tribe doesn’t run the refuge, just “co-stewards” it. That’s like handing someone the steering wheel and saying they’re not driving. You say the Friends board wasn’t pushed out, they just aged out, my how convenient. You say federal land going into trust changes nothing, except it does. Jurisdiction changes. Access changes. However no one asked the people who live here.
You say the mill closure had nothing to do with the County, it was China. It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it? But when jobs vanish, and tax burdens rise, it’s the locals who pay while the officials hold ribbon cuttings for “resilience.”
You say net pens are fine because they’re native fish. As if that answers every environmental concern. It doesn’t. It avoids the question.
You say the youth program is “merging,” the pizza is for “graduation,” and Peninsula College “paused” a program instead of cutting it. That’s word games, not transparency.
And when residents raise alarms about roads flooding or homes being devalued, you say no one’s being forced to move. Not yet. But if mitigation becomes “managed retreat,” and insurance dries up, what choice do people really have?
We are not falling for this anymore. The language might be polished. The policies might be funded. But the consequences are real, and they are landing squarely on the backs of working families, retirees, and anyone trying to live simply and freely in their own home.
This county has real problems. Pretending everything’s just a misunderstanding doesn’t fix them, it insults the people trying to warn you before it’s too late.
We’re not angry because we’re uninformed. We’re angry because we are informed and we’re being ignored.
I'm not asking anyone to "pretend everything's fine". I'm asking us to understand the difference between facts from what simply 'feels true'.
Its good to have measured trust with bureaucrats. But this information isn't hard to find.
1. Co-steward
The tribe can lead walks, produce brochures, and help recruit volunteers. But ALL regulations (CCP Plans, area usage, conservation, regulations etc) remain under federal control. If the USFWS vetoes an idea, it dies. The steering wheel remains in Washington, DC. Check their website. No mention of the tribe anywhere.
You can ask for a copy of their board minutes. Send an FOIA request to the USFWS for an email between Trevor Sheffels and the friends group. The decision to dissolve came from the board itself after the USFWS floated a merger. No eviction, no quit, just too few abled bodied volunteers to keep a stand-alone nonprofit solvent. They will consolidate the five micro-friends groups into one regional 501(c)(3). I hope you ask to join.
3. Elwha Trust Land
Please copy and paste where I said, "federal land going into trust changes nothing". These rhetorical devices will not work with me. I didn't claim it "changes nothing", I was countering the claim in the article that transferring federal land into tribal trust would change the tax for the land. It won't, it will remain exempt.
4. Mill closure
I'm not blaming anyone, I'm giving you the reality of the situation. You can check for yourself. The commodity collapse combined with the Chinese import ban led to the demise of the mill. The old corrugated container (OCC) has surged and gonna set records for production, which is what the PT mill produces. You can read this here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/us-mills-to-use-record-rcp-volumes-and-occ-demand-set-to-grow/
Business that cant' compete, that don't invest in equipment and newer technologies tend to die and go away. This isn't rocket science, and it isn't communist China. This is America, where capitalism reigns, and competition creates winners and losers.
5. Net Pens
Again, copy and paste where I said "net pens are fine". I was pointing out the many differences between the net pens in Chile, and the potential, although unlikely, net pens in Washington State. There is different gear, currents, species, monitoring etc. Its comparing apples to oranges. There is a lot of evidence to show that net pens can have substantial adverse environmental impacts, so comparing what happened in Chile, where they still raise net pen fish, to Washington waters, is misguided.
6. Youth Program, Pizza, Peninsula College
Saying what is actually happening isn't "word games", its reality.
--Youth Programs - There is a merge and jobs are staying, the funding formula shifts, you can ask for a staff memo that explains how the State's new Youth Behavioral block-grant dollars will fold True Star type services by calling here: 360-417-2282
--Pizza - Drug Court has reduced recidivism and you can look in the Clallam County Therapeutic Courts Annual Report FY 2022 by calling and asking for it here: 360-417-2572.
--Peninsula College - and you can email pcboardofrustees@pencol.edu and ask about the Hospitality BAS status.
Do some research, don't just believe what the CCWD reports.
Clallam County really does have structural problems, we can agree on that, but if we want to fix them, we've got to separate what's actually affecting working families from what is a drifting narrative and grievance politics.
I can take this point by point… but what we have here both Tribal and County to date is a track record and that creates a pattern… it is not lovely. You have strong feelings as do the rest of us. They are not just based on Jeff Tozzers articles. Possibly like you yourself, they are lived.
In reply to #5, A commissioner told me that the pizza was used as an incentive for addicts to attend gatherings to entice them into sobriety. So Drug Court recidivism is reduced by 2/3.? is that a permanent reduction? How is it measured? I'd like to see the criteria. I just don't see the results on my streets. Taking your points one at a time.
Times, they are a'changin'...better for some...not so much for others...we are about 1/4 mile away from the armed standoff in Carlsborg today. We had another armed standoff 1/4 mile away in another direction a few months back (as crows fly).
We have 2 criminal households on our road of 13 houses...waiting for something to happen...it's getting a little tense...the swat team is having some real-time exercise...we need to remain vigilant for 'swatting' calls on our compatriots as 'Nozias' has already demonstrated his willingness to weaponize the Sheriff's Dept. to attempt to persecute/silence Jeff.
S is hitting the fan...it's likely to get worse before/if it gets better.
Housing prices are already dropping in our region as the political/taxation climate is becoming known.
Not looking fwd to the high-density/low income housing being rolled out here in Carlsborg.
We are going to have over 250 units within 1/4 mile or less of our home.
Sunny Farms will be practically unusable.
What a difference a plandemic (distraction) and secret deals can make in a few years.
We are being flooded with 'climate migrants', intentionally, to break down OUR traditional culture. Another EROSION factor not being addressed openly but right in our faces!
'Nozias' has known about this for years...maybe many years, as an agent of NWO agenda.
In the state of California the Western Rivers Conservancy just turned over 47,097 acres along the Klamath River to the Yurok tribe.
Remember with me that the Democrats that gather annually in Olympia seem to be lacking in any original thinking. So they turn to California and follow what they do. So no surprise what Senators Murray and Cantwell and our former governor say and write.
But it was that Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, that said something to the effect, "The greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself." If we are guests here, well can't guests be asked (or trespassed) to leave?
They want us here to exploit and profit from and to shut up and do as we're told...unfortunately that's the model most of us were brought up under so we're pretty good at it!😱
Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon. ( from article in ProPublica, today’s date)
Regardless of the form or the venue discrimination cannot and will not change discrimination. Most importantly discrimination will not improve discrimination. Is there any logic in funding someone because of their ancestry ? Our ancestors no longer live. Further, our ancestors do not live in today's world. Following this logic, we are funding dead people. Why are some cultural ancestors honored, while others are not ? Is that not discrimination in it's purest form ?
I finally had an epiphany! If you notice how all Democrat-run cities are shit-holes, and Democrat-run States are mired in regulation and incompetent government. Is this by accident? Unintentional? No! Clallam County is the epitome of corrupt government that we complain about. Is it accidentally run because Oziass [sic] and his ilk are incompetent? No! It is INTENTIONAL!
I think they do this intentionally to drive out conservatives so that they retain a power monopoly consisting overwhelmingly of liberal idiots. This way, they are secure in their positions of "leadership" which allows them to continue to embezzle money from unsuspecting citizens, via USAID-type scams and other illegal methods like kick-backs, campaign funds, and other bribes from those that remain. After all, staying in power is paramount, NOT making a better city or state for their constituents.
The Tribe loves this because the more people leave, the more are replaced by naive liberals that keep their gravy train going. If a property is vacant, the Tribe might pick it up for pennies on the dollar. As property taxes go up, more people leave. As unreasonable laws are created, more people leave. As the tax base leaves the state, taxes are simply raised, but their constituents bitch and moan about it, but stay and pay it. And the corrupt politicians remain in power to milk the system and enrich themselves. Case in point: Inslee, after doing an incredible amount of damage to the state, retired to Idaho! Yes, folks, this "malfeasance" is intentional to enrich themselves!
I heard that he was moving (or has moved) to the Coeur d'Alene/Hayden area, a town of expensive homes and likely the most liberal politics in all of Idaho. In other words, after ruining this state, he escapes to a state where the damage he's done is absent.
Now I see how they define inclusive. They establish a BS way of thinking and include us all in it. That article in the paper chaps my ass. The way its written, makes it sound like Sequim itself had a TDS ralley. We all have a right to our opinions. But obviousley that opinion was not unanimous.
I think the homes on 3 Crabs and Jamestown Road have caused all the problems. Tear 'em down. Shoreline resiliency. Blame the people living on the beach. Blame someone, it just ain't natural, no way! Time for pitchforks and torches.
Of course it was the same 25 years ago. It's erosion. Whole world on the oceans and big waters like the Straits see erosion and accretion. But explain THAT to the crazies on the streets and in the halls of power...
Creeping gradualism works best as distraction after distraction keeps us from seeing what they are really doing...if they reopen the stairway it's going to cost us some more sovereignty in some way!😎
***"3 Crabs Conflict": I looked over the map that you had linked. It seems to me that there has been no change in the beach area, but there has been a significant change along the marsh area to the west, close to where the old restaurant was. Take a look at the specific map for that location for the years: 1976-1977, 1992-1997, 2000-2002, 2006-2007, and 2017-2017. If you just stay on the same photo (location) and just change the year, it will show you the same location for those years. You can clearly see the effect of the modifications made.
***"Tribal trust land expansion: a legislative Trojan horse?" : Where Rep. Emily Randall says, “Since time immemorial the Lower Elwha Klallam and the Quinault Indian Nation have stewarded these lands and waters for today’s inhabitants, and for the benefit of the next seven generations,” I have been watching the activity of the local tribes since I moved here in 1986 and all they did was waste, not "steward". Example: We took a boat out to go fishing September of 1986, when we got here. We dropped a crab pot with a buoy and kept close by to fish. We had a license for all. Some commercial boat came by and cut our crab pot line. We lost our crab pot. We saw this same boat do this with other lines. It turned out that these were local tribe commercial fishermen. How long had these practices been going on? Later, we heard other locals complaining about these commercial boats stealing their pots. So, many who like to fish and like crab, keep near their pots to fish. Are there any public records of number of fish caught (from earlier years) for public who get a license to do so? Since there is a limit and the "catch count" has to be recorded, I would imagine that there is. Does it coincide with the decline in the salmon and shellfish population? That would be an interesting independent study.
So here is hoping that of the 51 commenters here that I saw this Wednesday morning chipped in and or added their name to John Worthingtons Change. Orgs petition …. At least money to where thy mouth is…
Here’s hoping your blog lights a fire that obliterates the homeless industrial/tribal complex that runs Clallam and especially PA in the next election.
Here's hoping the people who read the blog VOTE!
It also requires candidates worth voting for.
Here's hoping the voting isn't rigged!😱
It did look like they filled out the CRC survey.
I think it's even bigger than that. They want to ensure a low paid wage slave population that just simply wakes up every morning and goes to their low paid jobs.
Homeless don't make good waiters and servers. Got to put them in shelters paid for by the taxpayers then off they go to their minimum wage jobs at the Casinos and Gold Course and construction companies.
When Patty Murray says they want to "transfer this land back to Tribal ownership is not only the right thing to do, but it will support important Tribal-led habitat restoration and salmon recovery efforts, improving these precious ecosystems for everyone,” she's full of it. Never forget that whatever else the tribes are, first and foremost they care about themselves and not non-tribal entities. Throughout the West, and especially Alaska (where I lived for 15 years and was very involved in this), native and tribal entities have a track record of poor fish and wildlife management and doing whatever they can to reduce and/or eliminate the opportunities for the rest of us to participate -- even though non-tribal hunters and anglers pay the lion's share of the tab.
Yeah, the great 'stewardship' myth!
They simply had access to so much abundance their greed couldn't consume it all...but there WERE food wars periodically when salmon didn't return in numbers...as the sea level rose after last ice age the productive clam beds kept shrinking as water overtook them.
All over the inside passage of B.C. you can see down into the clear water how deep the old 'clam garden' structures are and how much larger areas they once occupied.
They did have to continuously add 'rip-rap' to the outer edges of the clam beds and the area of harvest got smaller as time went on, so there Were climate-induced stressors on the natives but that does not mean they were 'good stewards'.
They were/are exploiters just like the rest of humanity and we can see that playing out in current behavior.
If they thought/knew the salmon could be brought back to sufficient numbers why do they want net-pen fisheries?...TOTAL EXPLOITATION!
'The tribe' is proxy for NWO control and domination...that is all.😎
Well put! I've been watching this for about 39 years, now. SOS (same old...)
What a potpourri of local malfeasance, corruption, lies, and favored special interests. I am most appalled by the incessant climate alarmism (which is natural, and 10,000 years slow), that is used to LIE about justification to condemn coastal property, when it is the Tribe's breaching of a protective dike on the creek that is the cause of increased flooding.
It all makes me ask, "When is it time to tar and feather those responsible for the deceit and corruption plaguing our county?" These miscreants are not accountable for their actions and corruption, while naive, uninformed and misinformed voters keep re-electing them. We MUST restore consequences to our ethics laws!
If it don't fit on a bumper sticker it's not my source of news. If I see it on Tik Tok I believe. If it's angry and blames T I believe it. Tax the Rich. Pay your Fair Share. Climate Change. Shoreline Resiliency. YOU are to blame you people who've worked your whole lives! Now hand me another. Now let's get boofing.
See MK Ultra program...still alive and well under different names...it might shine some light on the mass-mind-set ripping through the country and around the world.
3 generations have been mind-controlled through media and universities...not all of course but apparently Enough! The 'vulnerable' are especially targeted because they don't have strong family or community backgrounds so are more easily mind-altered.
These beings are not going to respond to logic or rationale...there is no debate possible...only action and reaction.
Forks' main store has had major upset in supply chain due to hacking of the main suppliers computer network.
You might want a few extra cans of food around...JIC.😊
It requires 'some' critical mass...apparently we're not there yet but anything is possible!😎
Jeff, you've become daily reading!
I read EROSION NOT CLIMATE CHANGE appears to be the culprit. OH NO MR BILL there goes the narrative.
Colleen McAleer seems a rational person, a person perhaps to watch!
She is a snake in human form.😎
Need more than that...
Colleen is a generational real estate (Re/Max) agent and property management service turned "land developer", basically. She is from this area. I see alterior motives in her actions.
Having grants for "rent assistance" would benefit her, as it would provide more funds for investment clients (people who buy homes here to rent). "44 families on the waiting list for housing" and "Rise in senior homelessness" play into this plan, also. If people who can afford the homes come in and BUY the homes, making sure that they will be paid from potential renters and with a great turn-over (as seniors aren't alway as long-term renter), then she can rack up the real estate commissions. So much going on here.
Sequim, being a retirement community, is a great money-maker for real estate companies.
During the CVD lockdown the "coffee show" did a zoom show and had a developer as guest talk about building affordable housing... the guess opening admitted he needed to make X million per project in order to develop housing. Don't know if there were any RFP request for proposals during that time, but I do know openly talking about the amount you seek for projects for govt contracts is verboten.
There they go admitting to circumventing a treaty.
Which part this time?
The one Ed Bowen keeps talking about. They agreed to Article IX.
You asked for it.
June 18, 2025
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
838 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Hello,
My name is John Worthington, and I live in Sequim Washington, which is in Clallam County, Washington. I am writing to the Committee on Indian Affairs to inform them that my treaty rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855, have been systematically taken away by a consortium of unregistered international ICLEI agents, federal agencies, members of Congress, local tribes, state agencies, and local officials. This consortium has also usurped the authority of Congress to deal with tribal and foreign affairs. Their violations of Article V and IX of the Point No Point Treaty of 1855 began in 2001. Every year since 2001, the consortium has altered the original terms of the Point No Point Treaty of 1855 and have misused 20 years of federal grant money to undermine my non-tribal rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855.
This “consortium” operates under the Washington State statutory provision creating the the Puget Sound Partnership. That statute is RCW 90.71.210. The consortium operates locally in Clallam County under the language “an ecosystem coordination board.” The local “ecosystem coordination board” for Clallam County is Strait Ecosystems Recovery Network (SERN) as shown in the link: https://www.psp.wa.gov/LIO-overview.php
In SERN, this “consortium” consists of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State Department of Ecology, Washington State Conservation District. This “consortium” is also consists of federal agencies Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, US Army Corp of Engineers, US Coast Guard Sector Seattle, US Fish and Wildlife Service. The consortium also consists of Tribal Nations Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Makah Tribe. The consortium also consists of County governments under ICLEI agreement or affiliation, Jefferson County and Clallam County. The consortium also consists of City governments under ICLEI agreement or affiliation, City of Port Angeles, City of Sequim and City of Port Townsend. The consortium also consists of numerous non-profit and Non-Government Organizations. https://www.straitern.org/aboutus There is also another Non-Government Organization called North Olympic Development Council (NODC). NODC is another overlapping consortium that is also a member of SERN. https://www.noprcd.org/about#OURTEAM There is yet another NGO called North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity for Salmon (NOPLE). NOPLE is similar to SERN and has US Fish & Wildlife Service , US Forest Service, state ,tribal , county, city and non-profit components.
Since 2001, SERN, NODC, and NOPLE have been and still are loaded with ICLEI Charter members, who have agreed to create a “compensation mechanism” to heal a “bad relationship” as part of a “Restorative Justice” plan. https://icleiusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Equity_-First-Steps-Guide.pdf It has been this 24 year “Restorative Justice” plan, that has undermined my Point No Point Treaty of 1855. Members of Congress, Derek Kilmer, Maria Cantwell, and Patty Murray have routinely furnished the consortium with funding and tools to achieve this “Restorative Justice.” This “Restorative Justice” effort began in 2001 and continues to this day. Everything being done in the name of “Restorative Justice” is unconstitutional and is violating my treaty rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855. My local government has been assimilated and commandeered by the consortium to “implement” SERN, NODC and NOPLE policy. I do not have input on public policy. On a weekly basis, my county government public policy promulgation mechanism meets to pretend they are conducting real time policy promulgation, but in reality, they are just “implementing” public policy already decided by the consortium of SERN, NODC, and NOPLE.
Congress must step in to restore the American process and preserve my rights under the Point No Point Treaty of 1855.
Thank you.
John Worthington
303 S.5TH Ave.
Sequim WA.98382
I wish I could attach signatures to this letter.
https://chng.it/QhQ45gSjgL
I need 100 signatures and they mail it to Congress.
I gave $30 and passed it on. Thanks, John!😊
Did it John!
Signed it- thank you for the heads up John & for providing the link to follow allowing me to show my support 👍🏼
Apparently 'treaties' aren't worth the paper they were printed on.
Values can be outlined in writing but are not the Values themselves.
Only persons can live out Values...and here we are, no longer in the dark but still being fed shit and told we should like it!
🌍 We're not even on the map of 'the globe'. Maybe we don't exist!😝
Ten Bears kinda said that on Josey Wales.
Can’t confuse them with facts.
"blind-review process" in housing. Isn't this the same as eliminating DEI hires that is nationally recognized as the way forward for equality for all.
Blind the public as to what's really going on, that's all!😬
Tongue-in-cheek comment
Important Context:
1. Habitat for Humanity
The quote about black homeownership is from Humanity's International policy, local family selection in CC still uses the HUD-style, blind-scoring matrix. Look at the 2023 audit. Racial quotas are neither used nor permitted under HFHI policy.
2. Friends of Dungeness "tossed out".
--USFWS retains statutory management of the refuge. The refuge isn't "now run by the tribe".
--The volunteer board dissolved because the average age of active members was 78, and USFWS is gonna consolidate the five tiny groups into one large Olympic Peninsula Friends Group according to an email from acting refuge manager Trevor Sheffels. The Friends board supported the co-stewardship.
3. Port Townsend mill vs. McKinley closure
--McKinleys shutdown was due to global pulp price which collapsed and due in part to China's scrap-paper ban, not "county leaders".
--PT Mill survived not due to special incentives, but because it makes kraft pulp and corrugated medium, a completely different product line.
4. Net Pens
--Chile farms non-native atlantic salmon in fjords with minimal current, so escapes are invasive.
--The jamestown tribe is proposing native rainbow/steelhead in deep-water net pens with mandatory "escape prevention and recapture plan".
5. Juvenile True Star
--True Star is being merged with the State's new Behavioral Health Services for Youth, and will keep all eight counselor positions. It also increases the medicaid match from 50% to 70%.
--The $230 pizza is for Drug Court Graduation ceremonies. Drug Court recidivism in Clallam County as a result? 12%, versus 38% for non-participants. Drug Court works to prevent crime and burden on our court and jail systems. Facts matter.
6. Trust transfer removes land from tax rolls
--the 1,082 acres are Olympic National Forest, which are already tax-exempt. Again, grievance politics is CCWD's forte.
7. Peninsula College courses
--the tribal language courses are a requirement of a grant the college applied for, not money spent by the college's general fund.
--the hospitality BAS program is paused while they search for a new lead as the old faculty retired, not permanently ended due to budget cuts.
--4 french language classes were cut due to low enrollment.
8. 3 Crabs road
--the "mass casualty" event is contradicted by publicly available engineering files.
--the road prism now sits 18 inches below projected 2050 high-tide flood eleveation
--mitigation options include: elevation, retrofit, or VOLUNTARY acquisition of houses.
--there is no call for forced relocation or mass buy-outs.
Clallam County has actual fiscal and policy problems, hardly anyone disputes that, but the problems won't be solved if people are distracted with recycled rumors, misreading of shoreline photos, and framing every federal-state-tribal action as if you're part of a Tom Clancy spy novel.
Let’s stop pretending that the people raising concerns are confused, misinformed, or living in a spy novel.
We know what we’re seeing because we’ve lived here long enough to recognize when something’s changing beneath the surface. It’s not just about one refuge, or one road, or one policy. It’s about a pattern.
You say the Tribe doesn’t run the refuge, just “co-stewards” it. That’s like handing someone the steering wheel and saying they’re not driving. You say the Friends board wasn’t pushed out, they just aged out, my how convenient. You say federal land going into trust changes nothing, except it does. Jurisdiction changes. Access changes. However no one asked the people who live here.
You say the mill closure had nothing to do with the County, it was China. It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it? But when jobs vanish, and tax burdens rise, it’s the locals who pay while the officials hold ribbon cuttings for “resilience.”
You say net pens are fine because they’re native fish. As if that answers every environmental concern. It doesn’t. It avoids the question.
You say the youth program is “merging,” the pizza is for “graduation,” and Peninsula College “paused” a program instead of cutting it. That’s word games, not transparency.
And when residents raise alarms about roads flooding or homes being devalued, you say no one’s being forced to move. Not yet. But if mitigation becomes “managed retreat,” and insurance dries up, what choice do people really have?
We are not falling for this anymore. The language might be polished. The policies might be funded. But the consequences are real, and they are landing squarely on the backs of working families, retirees, and anyone trying to live simply and freely in their own home.
This county has real problems. Pretending everything’s just a misunderstanding doesn’t fix them, it insults the people trying to warn you before it’s too late.
We’re not angry because we’re uninformed. We’re angry because we are informed and we’re being ignored.
I'm not asking anyone to "pretend everything's fine". I'm asking us to understand the difference between facts from what simply 'feels true'.
Its good to have measured trust with bureaucrats. But this information isn't hard to find.
1. Co-steward
The tribe can lead walks, produce brochures, and help recruit volunteers. But ALL regulations (CCP Plans, area usage, conservation, regulations etc) remain under federal control. If the USFWS vetoes an idea, it dies. The steering wheel remains in Washington, DC. Check their website. No mention of the tribe anywhere.
Links: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/dungeness/what-we-do
2. Friends
You can ask for a copy of their board minutes. Send an FOIA request to the USFWS for an email between Trevor Sheffels and the friends group. The decision to dissolve came from the board itself after the USFWS floated a merger. No eviction, no quit, just too few abled bodied volunteers to keep a stand-alone nonprofit solvent. They will consolidate the five micro-friends groups into one regional 501(c)(3). I hope you ask to join.
3. Elwha Trust Land
Please copy and paste where I said, "federal land going into trust changes nothing". These rhetorical devices will not work with me. I didn't claim it "changes nothing", I was countering the claim in the article that transferring federal land into tribal trust would change the tax for the land. It won't, it will remain exempt.
4. Mill closure
I'm not blaming anyone, I'm giving you the reality of the situation. You can check for yourself. The commodity collapse combined with the Chinese import ban led to the demise of the mill. The old corrugated container (OCC) has surged and gonna set records for production, which is what the PT mill produces. You can read this here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/us-mills-to-use-record-rcp-volumes-and-occ-demand-set-to-grow/
Business that cant' compete, that don't invest in equipment and newer technologies tend to die and go away. This isn't rocket science, and it isn't communist China. This is America, where capitalism reigns, and competition creates winners and losers.
5. Net Pens
Again, copy and paste where I said "net pens are fine". I was pointing out the many differences between the net pens in Chile, and the potential, although unlikely, net pens in Washington State. There is different gear, currents, species, monitoring etc. Its comparing apples to oranges. There is a lot of evidence to show that net pens can have substantial adverse environmental impacts, so comparing what happened in Chile, where they still raise net pen fish, to Washington waters, is misguided.
6. Youth Program, Pizza, Peninsula College
Saying what is actually happening isn't "word games", its reality.
--Youth Programs - There is a merge and jobs are staying, the funding formula shifts, you can ask for a staff memo that explains how the State's new Youth Behavioral block-grant dollars will fold True Star type services by calling here: 360-417-2282
--Pizza - Drug Court has reduced recidivism and you can look in the Clallam County Therapeutic Courts Annual Report FY 2022 by calling and asking for it here: 360-417-2572.
--Peninsula College - and you can email pcboardofrustees@pencol.edu and ask about the Hospitality BAS status.
Do some research, don't just believe what the CCWD reports.
Clallam County really does have structural problems, we can agree on that, but if we want to fix them, we've got to separate what's actually affecting working families from what is a drifting narrative and grievance politics.
5.
I can take this point by point… but what we have here both Tribal and County to date is a track record and that creates a pattern… it is not lovely. You have strong feelings as do the rest of us. They are not just based on Jeff Tozzers articles. Possibly like you yourself, they are lived.
They are not pretend!
In reply to #5, A commissioner told me that the pizza was used as an incentive for addicts to attend gatherings to entice them into sobriety. So Drug Court recidivism is reduced by 2/3.? is that a permanent reduction? How is it measured? I'd like to see the criteria. I just don't see the results on my streets. Taking your points one at a time.
“Last Fall, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe assumed management of the Dungeness NWR and Protection Island NWR... As a result, this new management no longer needed most of the services that the Friends offer.” https://www.ccwatchdog.com/p/changing-currents?utm_source=publication-search
Thank you for clarifying and correcting the watchdog's misleading narrative...again.
Times, they are a'changin'...better for some...not so much for others...we are about 1/4 mile away from the armed standoff in Carlsborg today. We had another armed standoff 1/4 mile away in another direction a few months back (as crows fly).
We have 2 criminal households on our road of 13 houses...waiting for something to happen...it's getting a little tense...the swat team is having some real-time exercise...we need to remain vigilant for 'swatting' calls on our compatriots as 'Nozias' has already demonstrated his willingness to weaponize the Sheriff's Dept. to attempt to persecute/silence Jeff.
S is hitting the fan...it's likely to get worse before/if it gets better.
Housing prices are already dropping in our region as the political/taxation climate is becoming known.
Not looking fwd to the high-density/low income housing being rolled out here in Carlsborg.
We are going to have over 250 units within 1/4 mile or less of our home.
Sunny Farms will be practically unusable.
What a difference a plandemic (distraction) and secret deals can make in a few years.
We are being flooded with 'climate migrants', intentionally, to break down OUR traditional culture. Another EROSION factor not being addressed openly but right in our faces!
'Nozias' has known about this for years...maybe many years, as an agent of NWO agenda.
'No where to run to baby, nowhere to hide!'🫣
I moved from California eleven years ago to escape criminal activity and government corruption. "Grandma I think I made a big mistake".
A lot of people that I know, who grew up in WA and are from the King Co. area have moved to Idaho. Seemed like a quieter place.
In the state of California the Western Rivers Conservancy just turned over 47,097 acres along the Klamath River to the Yurok tribe.
Remember with me that the Democrats that gather annually in Olympia seem to be lacking in any original thinking. So they turn to California and follow what they do. So no surprise what Senators Murray and Cantwell and our former governor say and write.
But it was that Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, that said something to the effect, "The greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself." If we are guests here, well can't guests be asked (or trespassed) to leave?
If we leave there would be mo tax money.
You mean just like the salmon…. Under all of that care and consideration???
They want us here to exploit and profit from and to shut up and do as we're told...unfortunately that's the model most of us were brought up under so we're pretty good at it!😱
Just FYI:
Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon. ( from article in ProPublica, today’s date)
Why has an advance civilization become a slave to a stone age civilization?
Uh. Hm. I just wouldn't have gone there.
Regardless of the form or the venue discrimination cannot and will not change discrimination. Most importantly discrimination will not improve discrimination. Is there any logic in funding someone because of their ancestry ? Our ancestors no longer live. Further, our ancestors do not live in today's world. Following this logic, we are funding dead people. Why are some cultural ancestors honored, while others are not ? Is that not discrimination in it's purest form ?
I finally had an epiphany! If you notice how all Democrat-run cities are shit-holes, and Democrat-run States are mired in regulation and incompetent government. Is this by accident? Unintentional? No! Clallam County is the epitome of corrupt government that we complain about. Is it accidentally run because Oziass [sic] and his ilk are incompetent? No! It is INTENTIONAL!
I think they do this intentionally to drive out conservatives so that they retain a power monopoly consisting overwhelmingly of liberal idiots. This way, they are secure in their positions of "leadership" which allows them to continue to embezzle money from unsuspecting citizens, via USAID-type scams and other illegal methods like kick-backs, campaign funds, and other bribes from those that remain. After all, staying in power is paramount, NOT making a better city or state for their constituents.
The Tribe loves this because the more people leave, the more are replaced by naive liberals that keep their gravy train going. If a property is vacant, the Tribe might pick it up for pennies on the dollar. As property taxes go up, more people leave. As unreasonable laws are created, more people leave. As the tax base leaves the state, taxes are simply raised, but their constituents bitch and moan about it, but stay and pay it. And the corrupt politicians remain in power to milk the system and enrich themselves. Case in point: Inslee, after doing an incredible amount of damage to the state, retired to Idaho! Yes, folks, this "malfeasance" is intentional to enrich themselves!
I think if the subject involves crime the demographic feature is more important than political affiliation.
Why Idaho? He would not be welcome in the northern part.
I heard that he was moving (or has moved) to the Coeur d'Alene/Hayden area, a town of expensive homes and likely the most liberal politics in all of Idaho. In other words, after ruining this state, he escapes to a state where the damage he's done is absent.
Now I see how they define inclusive. They establish a BS way of thinking and include us all in it. That article in the paper chaps my ass. The way its written, makes it sound like Sequim itself had a TDS ralley. We all have a right to our opinions. But obviousley that opinion was not unanimous.
They/them polynanimous you mean?!🤣
The more I think about it. More it pisses me off. Who exactly gave the imoral minority the right to speak for the majority? I want a retraction.
Funny, This was the same issue 25 years ago when I worked for the parks department. Don't throw any more money at it. Viewpoint no beach access!
I think the homes on 3 Crabs and Jamestown Road have caused all the problems. Tear 'em down. Shoreline resiliency. Blame the people living on the beach. Blame someone, it just ain't natural, no way! Time for pitchforks and torches.
Of course it was the same 25 years ago. It's erosion. Whole world on the oceans and big waters like the Straits see erosion and accretion. But explain THAT to the crazies on the streets and in the halls of power...
That's the cool thing...if you have media/education control you can just MAKE SHIT UP and serve it so many ways people eventually swallow it!😈
Creeping gradualism works best as distraction after distraction keeps us from seeing what they are really doing...if they reopen the stairway it's going to cost us some more sovereignty in some way!😎
***"3 Crabs Conflict": I looked over the map that you had linked. It seems to me that there has been no change in the beach area, but there has been a significant change along the marsh area to the west, close to where the old restaurant was. Take a look at the specific map for that location for the years: 1976-1977, 1992-1997, 2000-2002, 2006-2007, and 2017-2017. If you just stay on the same photo (location) and just change the year, it will show you the same location for those years. You can clearly see the effect of the modifications made.
***"Tribal trust land expansion: a legislative Trojan horse?" : Where Rep. Emily Randall says, “Since time immemorial the Lower Elwha Klallam and the Quinault Indian Nation have stewarded these lands and waters for today’s inhabitants, and for the benefit of the next seven generations,” I have been watching the activity of the local tribes since I moved here in 1986 and all they did was waste, not "steward". Example: We took a boat out to go fishing September of 1986, when we got here. We dropped a crab pot with a buoy and kept close by to fish. We had a license for all. Some commercial boat came by and cut our crab pot line. We lost our crab pot. We saw this same boat do this with other lines. It turned out that these were local tribe commercial fishermen. How long had these practices been going on? Later, we heard other locals complaining about these commercial boats stealing their pots. So, many who like to fish and like crab, keep near their pots to fish. Are there any public records of number of fish caught (from earlier years) for public who get a license to do so? Since there is a limit and the "catch count" has to be recorded, I would imagine that there is. Does it coincide with the decline in the salmon and shellfish population? That would be an interesting independent study.
Everything else seems self-explanatory. Nicely written!
So here is hoping that of the 51 commenters here that I saw this Wednesday morning chipped in and or added their name to John Worthingtons Change. Orgs petition …. At least money to where thy mouth is…
Yes … rage against the machine….