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No One Important's avatar

Cause your farm's water to dry up, then charge you for piping it in. What a racket! And this is pushed by the Tribe for their "SA-MUHN"-- increase their catch by 1% at the expense of all the Sequim farmers.

What the Tribe wants, the Tribe gets.... because they OWN our local government.

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No One Important's avatar

If some of that water was left to percolate into the aquifer, perhaps there would be less of it to flood 3 Crabs. Could the piping of the irrigation ditches (a unilateral decision, BTW) be a sneaky way for the Tribe to acquire more condemned property, for pennies on the dollar? Is the Tribal reservoir project a sneaky way to have "ammo", to quietly release more at certain high tides to intentionally cause more flooding? Nah, it couldn't be....

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Billy T Wilson's avatar

This proves my point, money talks. WE can also speak! We need a coordinated effort to fund the election of 'good' politicians.

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John Worthington's avatar

They use a network of Non-profits and LLC to take over our community. Nothing short of that will make a dent. Republicans just don't counter organize good enough.

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Robert James's avatar

Our 'vision' is simply to live and let live but that vision is a weak one compared to theirs...total control and domination of ALL resources and ALL people.

So much for the meek inheriting the Earth!🌍

I always thought that was a lame saying! Now we know it's a lie!

The Takers inherit the Earth...every time...for a time!

Good thing I'm not my body!😳

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Billy T Wilson's avatar

GOOD people in power won't bend a knee to the NGOS (for $$$)

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John Worthington's avatar

Interesting point. Maybe its time to consider paying City Councilmembers and Mayors more than just 300 to 600 a month.

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Mimi Smith-Dvorak's avatar

Just elect the right people.

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John Worthington's avatar

How do you do that when the communist non profit mailing list here is 7000 strong. Most of them propped up through the Tribal, Non-profit and LLC network employment structure. The school district is full of imposters that advertise tribal oaths. The small business local industry vote just isn't there. There isn't a voting machine issue, there is an American network issue here. The American system has to be restored. American business, American forest jobs, American homeland/infra guard jobs and national defense jobs.

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Mimi Smith-Dvorak's avatar

I'd sure like to know. There is very little way to get the "word out". Post card USPS fees are .56 cents, bulk rates are slightly lower at .31--.41 cents per. (Non profits can get .14 cents or .24 cents.) This is still astronomical for any candidate to reach out. The newspapers are useless. What else is there? Door-to-door? Perhaps. Suggestions on how to get the word out?

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No One Important's avatar

Something just occurred to me: The victims of the water grabs, the land grabs, the money grabs are the conservatives in our county. The parasites and leeches, the liberals.

This is no surprise to anyone, but Jeff's article just now solidified the image in my mind-- our local farmers, business people, and property owners are the victims as the County leeches suck money out of their accounts. This could not be more evident than by just looking around our county and seeing what's happening.

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John Worthington's avatar

The sweeping away of old white people on the Dungeness and the addition of "climate migrants" in Carlsborg. Getting control of water and changing the racial make up of a community. Their reverse racism is sick and disgusting.

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No One Important's avatar

Amen to that!

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Robert James's avatar

And effective. Roman Empire 2.0 😬

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John Worthington's avatar

We have piped on the matter and we have decided. We want to take over the entire Jamestown area and have the first checkered reservation in the history of tribes.

They will not listen to reason. There is nothing you can do. The people they have hired have entered, willingly, in an International government Democratic party kick back regime, the Doge patrol is getting closer and closer too.

First, the area is what I would call a harvest zone. Its where water should be reclaimed and re-directed to a deeper slower moving fixed meandering coil to get the speed of the river down, when it hits another fixed meandering coil at the 3 percent grade down to sea level to the mouth. One deep channel that meanders way more than the Dungeness does now. This is what they did at Jimmycomelately.

The current plan to leave leave the raging Dungeness racing downstream with runaway salmon hotel logs to scour beds has been disasterous. The "new" tributary siphoned water from the main channel and both lay low or are scouring channels during storm events. These are departures from the Jamestown Science and it has hurt tribal and non-tribal alike.

Second, the Tribes insistence to checker their reservation along multiple waterfront locations, runs headlong into the "consortiums" own NOAA predictions of sea level rise that seems to only apply to non-tribal. Its just another one foot to the other bad relationship dance and they are up to dance number 22.. Give them plush foothills. Move the freeway to the foothills and have it cross the river waters up higher where the grade of the river is of no use to spawning. Give the Jamestown tribe 2 business loop exits like any other freeway would have and quit running the scenic retail road in sea level rise peril. Leave the flat area's for the fixed meandering coil and farming. Blyn should have a minimum of 2 fixed meandering coils. The Dungeness, with stormwater diversions from east and west could operate 2 fixed meandering coils. They at least have to do 1. At least don't to dance 23.

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John Worthington's avatar

The Dungeness water rule was developed after they re-opened what has been an ineffective tributary. They showed us a video of how ineffective it has been. Baffles. Rob Smith says they have to take a tractor to dredge it without permits all the time. Something they stopped old man McGlothlin from doing where the longhouse is. That is how long they have been jumping from one foot to the other.

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Leo Leblanc's avatar

Mr. Sandman, your pretty talented. Eventually your going to have to give this Pitbull some meat. What can ya do with "Enter Sandman".

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John Worthington's avatar

My Dungeness and Elwha plan has always been better than theirs. They decided to insult me and lie instead of being consistent and honest. Now I have a "bad relationship." Hansi and Randy Johnson of Jamestown Tribe need to be removed. Lear is already gone. If they are going to continue to use Clallam County duns numbers, they should have to publicly explain their departure from Jimmycomelately science.

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Harold Crossley's avatar

For the umpteen time. Why is the County prosecutors not looking into the money flow. Lying, hiding reports...it all stinks. Are the lawyers getting paid off too?

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Lawrence Martin's avatar

Maddening...

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Joyce Cox's avatar

And the beat goes on…

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Eve So's avatar
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding. Please correct me if I am.

The way I read the pdf, 122 acre feet is the estimated gain that will no longer evaporate. If that’s the case, then it should be easy enough to calculate the amount that will no longer charge the aquifer, right? Graymarsh loses 20 acre feet per year and every well between there and the river loses as well. I’m not a scientist. It seems logical that gravity and the weight of water would equal far more water recovered (gained) in aquifer recharge than 122 acre feet “lost” to evaporation.

If I’m close…. How in the fork did this even get off the ground?

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John Worthington's avatar

Here is the strategic plan by SERN

https://pspwa.app.box.com/s/q4ahwskmrytiqz6b9ya1271djv9bb9bb

SERN is implementing the HEAL Act.

SERN does everything but somebody forgot to send Pitch-it and Ron Richards the memo. It had to be delivered by Craig Smith.

The Action Agenda consists of:

The Comprehensive Plan, which charts the course for long-term Puget Sound recovery and describes how the broader recovery system and framework functions. The Comprehensive Plan summarizes the risks of Puget Sound, articulates our recovery vision, and provides the framework to work towards that vision.

The Implementation Plan, which is the action component of the Action Agenda, provides the shared focus and implementation guidance for recovery over the next four years. Organized by strategies, it describes how we will make progress toward the Action Agenda desired outcomes, the Puget Sound Vital Signs, and statutory recovery goals. The Implementation Plan is the product of the collective recovery community effort to focus on the most important actions to achieve the desired outcomes.

2022-2026 Action Agenda Update Process

The Action Agenda represents the collective work of federal, tribal, state, local, nongovernmental, and private organizations to recover Puget Sound. Hundreds of partners from across Puget Sound invested their leadership and resources to create a bold and effective 2022-2026 Action Agenda to accelerate Puget Sound recovery. Partners participated in every phase of the Action Agenda update process, detailed in the Action Agenda development summary (link coming soon) and described below.

The Action Agenda update began in 2020 and included five phases. For the first phase, the Leadership Council—the governing body of the Partnership—approved a concept and vision for the 2022-2026 Action Agenda in June 2020.

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paula graham's avatar

Link doesn’t work and requires login🤦🏼‍♀️

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John Worthington's avatar

Its the same one pager on that same page.

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John Worthington's avatar

You can click on the download icon and download the plan without logging in. Point being they decided everything in 2024, from 2024 to 2029. I had to go to Puget Sound Partnership to see SERN stuff.

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John Worthington's avatar

Its the law. Washington State running Clallam County with feds, tribes and international agents of ICLEI.

SERN is the statutory ecosystem coordination board but has 5 federal agencies...

All of this was plotted by SERN. The worst of workshop reports are found in SERN meetings.

Ron Richards look...Puget Sound Science panel...

RCW 90.71.210

Puget Sound partnership—Created.

An agency of state government, to be known as the Puget Sound partnership, is created to oversee the restoration of the environmental health of Puget Sound by 2020. The agency shall consist of a leadership council, an executive director, an ecosystem coordination board, and a Puget Sound science panel.

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The Elder's avatar

Seems to be a theme with precedent set in DC in the most obvious ways these days indicating buying government is the way to go. The trickle-down effect.

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Eve So's avatar

Piping should fix that!

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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

Clever!

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John Worthington's avatar

Illegal government for $500 please Alex.

Who is SERN.

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John Worthington's avatar

SERN is a "local integrating organization" for Puget Sound Partnership.

How are Lead Integrating Organizations involved in Strategy development?

https://www.psp.wa.gov/implementation-strategies.php

The Local Integrating Organizations (LIOs) provide important content to the Strategies in the following ways:

Participate in Strategy development, which is a collaborative undertaking.

Provide LIO ecosystem recovery plans. The plans are instrumental in providing watershed-specific context to the developing Strategy.

https://www.psp.wa.gov/LIO-overview.php

Local Integrating Organizations are local forums that meet regularly throughout the year to collaboratively work to develop, coordinate, and implement strategies and actions that that contribute to the protection and recovery of the local ecosystem. Up until December 2018, there were nine LIOs. In Dec of 2018, the Leadership Council approved a tenth LIO, the Puyallup-White River LIO (PWR LIO).

Each LIO regularly updates their 5-year Ecosystem Recovery Plan that outlines specific strategies and actions that guide local ecosystem recovery and advises regional scale recovery.

The LIOs committees are recognized as the local expert bodies for ecosystem recovery. While each LIO structure may differ as a result of the needs of the specific geography, most have an executive committee and a technical committee. Members may include elected officials, tribal staff, city and county government staff, non-profit organizations, land trusts and conservation districts, marine resource committees, local businesses, interest groups, citizens, and educational organizations.

Each LIO coordinates with local salmon recovery bodies and other ecosystem recovery entities to align local priorities and goals.

The Puget Sound Partnership supports LIOs through capacity funding, resources, and liaison support via Ecosystem Recovery Coordinators (Puget Sound Partnership Staff)

Local Integrating Organizations:

San Juan Action Agenda Oversight Group

South Central Action Area Caucus Group

Alliance for a Healthy South Sound

Hood Canal Coordinating Council

West Sound Partners for Ecosystem Recovery

Whatcom LIO

Strait Ecosystem Recovery Network

Island LIO

Snohomish/Stillaguamish LIO

Puyallup-White River LIO (PWR LIO)

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Robert James's avatar

The irony is most of these do-gooders😱 have the free time to get involved due to cushy gov't and corporate pensions and salaries which are rooted in environmental exploitation and gov't debt.

Good thing they aren't hypocrites.

Lots for some...'some' for lots!

The breakdown of society and the rise of fascism...again...interesting.🧐

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