It is a tragedy that fish biologists, perhaps ichthyologists, were not involved from the beginning. Anadromous fish require year round water flow. I have no clue how many of these projects involve seasonal only run-offs, but from a Salmon restoration perspective they are useless. Anadromous fish runs are amazingly adaptable survivors, but without water they cannot exist. Ironic that this waste of resources manifested from people claiming aboriginal ancestry filing law suits. From the human evolution chart starting with "0" humans to our now eight billion humans where is the genealogical line that divides aboriginal from non-aboriginal ? Once that is known, ponder how many of those humans live today. The absurdity of different rights and privileges for differing ancestries is not compatible with equality.
It is so hard to measure the abundance of idiotic money grabbing waste of taxpayer dollars against each other due just to the sheer number alone, but this scam is perhaps the biggest boondoggle since the last administration.
Nothing related to this thievery of hard earned taxpayer money has as little return on investment at the state level. You have to be the former bloated national bureaucracy to equate to this rampant highway robbery.
The fact that Commissioner Mike French supports this criminal activity says it all. To slog our collective way out of this we have to get behind a courageous and tenacious leader with broad support and a laser focused on truth, facts, and transparency. I believe one is arising out of Clallam County government today.
They are trying to break us. No other explanation. They cant be that stupid. Break us. Enrichen themselves and their NGO buddies. Just like the climate scam, plandemic and illegal alien/voter scam. Wonder how much diverted stolen tax dollars the tribes are getting to facilitate the invasion of illegals?
The intent is clear when looking at these salmon restoration projects.How can these small streams substain abundant salmon stocks without abundant water?they cannot and officials know it.Ennis creek had a concrete fish ladder in the early 70's.Ennis creek,lee's creek,bagely creek,whites creek,tumwater creek,valley creek never had abundant salmon stocks.I fished these creeks since the sixties, most of these creeks should be classifieds as streams and some dry up during the summer .More steelhead run up some of these streams than salmon when there is high water during the early spring rain falls& snow melt.Big salmon projects just line the pockets of certain contractors that is the intent.The rivers that have substained large fish stocks were gillnetted and fish stocks decimated so state could apply for endangered species act $$$ which is still in the works.This would be a good candidate for doge to look at 'mass amounts of $$$ over the years'.Now culprits want to demolish hotel on top of whites creek and replace that 'newer culvert' which was installed when hotel was built,this project estimated at 100 million $$$ this is a total sham whites creek can barely substain small trout in puddles during summer months.
I will confirm your assertion with confidence, Jeff. I fished every one of the creeks you listed, including Peabody Creek which runs under Lincoln Street through a culvert from 2nd Street all the way to the harbor, that no one even talks about. A conversation with any of us locals would blow the current Salmon narrative back to the bone-dry Sequim Prairie, complete with native cactus and Garry Oaks, pre-irrigation days. The bridge that was built over Matriotti Creek on Highway 101 in Carlsborg is a prime example; marsh/dry bed most of the year. This fiasco is another aspect of a "Transfer of Wealth", with the same contractor, Scarcella Brothers Construction, as the prime contractor on all of these "fish passages" that local construction companies could easily accomplish as the prime, instead of a subcontractor; lets talk about jobs, shall we? Another major consideration, is that the State, Counties, and Cities are all crying the "we don't have the money blues", yet put none of the grandiose projects such as a New Clallam County EOC, "fish passages", Dungeness off-channel reservoir, and taxpayer funding of the greatest elephant in the room, The Field Arts and Events Hall (another non-profit), Olympic Medical Center's endless land and building grabs such as a most recent, former Wells Fargo at Front and Race. It is somewhat depressing to list all the corruption taking place by the various levels of goverment, because when I begin naming them, the list keeps spawning so many others, and those are only the examples I know of. Another consideration worthy of mention, with regard to weather, climate, and geographic features, is that the earth is not static, which again, blows all the alarmists, and their out of context language out of the water. There are just enough loud mouths and paid activists to inflitrate and cause confusion via propaganda to create doubt in those who are less informed and easily led through fear and uncertainty.
Most of these environmental activist are brain washed by big govt,look how many years these restoration projects have been in place and with little to no improvements of fish stocks which are usually chum & pink the bottom of salmon stocks.Salmon stocks need lot's of deep water to survive.Radical hypocrites usually use environmental issues to squander tax $$$.
Many were listed as stormwater runs because the grade was too steep to be of spawning use. A fish culvert up a mountain. Somebody needs to be held accountable.
PDN has 2-2.5 reporters — one of which is really young and posted what amounts to an “orange man bad — libraries good” press release for North Olympic Library System today.
I know you don't know me but my name is Worked hard all my life American tax paying citizen.
I'm sorry to take your time and yes I'm not a lobbyist or a NGO from Germany but I wondered
if you had a minute to hear my suggestion on how to take care of some of these community problems your feeling. I have feelings too ! I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, I feel like somebody some where is stealing from me and I don't know who it is ? It feels like somebody has their hand in my pocket! Is that you Mrs Mr Representative? how did you do that your
not even in the same room ? Since your hands are deep in my pocket could you move your hand to the left a little now the right a little ? No you say! that's immoral ! Shame on me? Well that doesn't feel good !
thank you for taking my money for nothing! Can I at least have your Hand out ?
Thanks for pretending to listen:
Worked hard all my life American tax paying citizen>
The sad part of this for a fraction of what is being spent you could of unblocked virtually every VIABLE creek capable of supporting spawning salmon on the 101. Stream bank restoration could have been funded. But instead of using a targeted planned approach from the bays upstream it was allowed to be left up to the Judge who saw no other way to rule. My understanding (which may be incorrect) was that Ferguson refused to engage in a comprehensive plan. The A.G's refusal might have been a heads we win not spending any money to tails we also win resulting in losing the lawsuit but creating billions of dollars in in prevailing wage work. I just see a most egregious waste of money with poor results. If my assessment is incorrect please educate me.
Not about the 'fish'...although they do need some loving care...big die-off of the hatchery fingerlings at Dungeness...two diseases hitting them hard. 'Unusual' according to one of the staff there. Something in the air-food-water? Noooooo, it couldn't be!😱
The Indian valley culvert was put in in the late 1920’s, even then the forefathers had insight to make it large, great fish ladder and it was still lasting. Many of the workers on the project couldn’t believe it was being taken out. The salmon was having no problems coming down Indian creek to the Elwha.. what a waste
It would all be OK if they used some of those special laminated wooden beams to create the culverts. They make it all OK. I suspect they’re what is holding up the Sequim Library, too.
Having explored the topography around Knapp Road and the dry gulch labeled “Eagle Creek” extensively while birding over the years, I was astonished to see the horrors perpetrated upon us and the land with the construction of the new bridge there several years ago.
As your map shows, Eagle creek terminates into a playa (wet land) that has no outlet and never reaches the sea. The seasonal water flow percolates and evaporates away.
Physics aside, culverts by nature will always be far more navigable than bridges with massive flat bottom concrete pretensioned structures.
Salmon apparently fly in order to reach water that has and will never reach the sea.
Based on the tribes totem poles depicting salmon, apparently they believe they do indeed fly.
So we are being forced to pay mega millions for bridges accommodating flying fish who don’t need no stinking bridges in the first place.
As everyone knows by now, the jokes on us. We have been taken advantage of, taken to the cleaners by the tribes, courtesy of the liberal
United States courts.
We are living in an age of stupidity, & ignorance,
where common sense is no longer common, and in fact is rare to non-existent.
Personally I’m sick of being told to bend over and grab my ankles.
Repatriations have nothing to do with me or anyone else living today.
However, because a small subset of our population lives in lala land, we must therefore pay up with far more than just money.
First of all we wondered why the road was being resurfaced in Agnew on Old Olympic…..using county tax dollars so it wouldn’t be taken away next year in county budget? The road was perfectly good road, couldn’t the money be spent on other much needed projects, perhaps used to fix Three Crabs road instead? Now we know why the money was spent for the road repair we questioned. This is how & why we don’t trust our government…
Where do we sign up to be "disadvantaged" with millions and millions of dollars like the JK Tribe's businesses??? We have American Indian ancestry and the federal, state, county, and city governments are ALL trying to murder us with this STILL ongoing COVID & dangerous fake "vaccines" (bioweapons) ~!
A review of the historic record absolutely proves that the worst events in history are always due to the criminals in government who use the most ignorant "useful idiots" in society to conduct their evil deeds~! Then, the rest of us who just wanted to live our peaceful lives in freedom always pay the price for the evil deeds of the worst in society in and outside of the corrupt government~! We, the Patriots, will no longer tolerate this evil cycle of evil can and must put an end to it once and for all~! Have a great day~! Sincerely, Mike
Many have wondered what man's destiny really is... As far as I know this is an age-old question... There are some very interesting Individuals who have found a presence Online who I find have fascinating things to say on the subject of man's (the humans) role on this "glob" of spinning dirt, rocks, gas, and water, and even "our" role in the Universe and beyond... The "beyond" thing has always intrigued me no end (pun intended). We all live in this world where nearly everything has limits, limits that we seem to be able to define, but what are the limits of space itself~? Are there no limits~? I am reading an interesting book "Holographic Universe" that has some brilliant concepts and indeed information that I find to be of value. I get this strange feeling that "we" earthly human-like creatures are only yet in the "kiddie pool" section of a VERY deep swimming hole~! Ha~! When those of us are throwing popcorn at the TV because we can so easily see the insanity of the "Tele-Vision" matrix, I often wonder who may be throwing popcorn at us~? ;-] Gobz of butter and salt please~! Ha! Well, my friend Robert, I will go where God wants me to go. Perhaps fussing about it and "time" itself, as I someday shed this old "meat suit" that has served me so well... Whatareyagonnado~? Sincerely, Mike
It is a tragedy that fish biologists, perhaps ichthyologists, were not involved from the beginning. Anadromous fish require year round water flow. I have no clue how many of these projects involve seasonal only run-offs, but from a Salmon restoration perspective they are useless. Anadromous fish runs are amazingly adaptable survivors, but without water they cannot exist. Ironic that this waste of resources manifested from people claiming aboriginal ancestry filing law suits. From the human evolution chart starting with "0" humans to our now eight billion humans where is the genealogical line that divides aboriginal from non-aboriginal ? Once that is known, ponder how many of those humans live today. The absurdity of different rights and privileges for differing ancestries is not compatible with equality.
Well said.
It is so hard to measure the abundance of idiotic money grabbing waste of taxpayer dollars against each other due just to the sheer number alone, but this scam is perhaps the biggest boondoggle since the last administration.
Nothing related to this thievery of hard earned taxpayer money has as little return on investment at the state level. You have to be the former bloated national bureaucracy to equate to this rampant highway robbery.
The fact that Commissioner Mike French supports this criminal activity says it all. To slog our collective way out of this we have to get behind a courageous and tenacious leader with broad support and a laser focused on truth, facts, and transparency. I believe one is arising out of Clallam County government today.
They are trying to break us. No other explanation. They cant be that stupid. Break us. Enrichen themselves and their NGO buddies. Just like the climate scam, plandemic and illegal alien/voter scam. Wonder how much diverted stolen tax dollars the tribes are getting to facilitate the invasion of illegals?
It all starts with a casino.
Yes. That and legalizing dope to dull the senses.
The intent is clear when looking at these salmon restoration projects.How can these small streams substain abundant salmon stocks without abundant water?they cannot and officials know it.Ennis creek had a concrete fish ladder in the early 70's.Ennis creek,lee's creek,bagely creek,whites creek,tumwater creek,valley creek never had abundant salmon stocks.I fished these creeks since the sixties, most of these creeks should be classifieds as streams and some dry up during the summer .More steelhead run up some of these streams than salmon when there is high water during the early spring rain falls& snow melt.Big salmon projects just line the pockets of certain contractors that is the intent.The rivers that have substained large fish stocks were gillnetted and fish stocks decimated so state could apply for endangered species act $$$ which is still in the works.This would be a good candidate for doge to look at 'mass amounts of $$$ over the years'.Now culprits want to demolish hotel on top of whites creek and replace that 'newer culvert' which was installed when hotel was built,this project estimated at 100 million $$$ this is a total sham whites creek can barely substain small trout in puddles during summer months.
I will confirm your assertion with confidence, Jeff. I fished every one of the creeks you listed, including Peabody Creek which runs under Lincoln Street through a culvert from 2nd Street all the way to the harbor, that no one even talks about. A conversation with any of us locals would blow the current Salmon narrative back to the bone-dry Sequim Prairie, complete with native cactus and Garry Oaks, pre-irrigation days. The bridge that was built over Matriotti Creek on Highway 101 in Carlsborg is a prime example; marsh/dry bed most of the year. This fiasco is another aspect of a "Transfer of Wealth", with the same contractor, Scarcella Brothers Construction, as the prime contractor on all of these "fish passages" that local construction companies could easily accomplish as the prime, instead of a subcontractor; lets talk about jobs, shall we? Another major consideration, is that the State, Counties, and Cities are all crying the "we don't have the money blues", yet put none of the grandiose projects such as a New Clallam County EOC, "fish passages", Dungeness off-channel reservoir, and taxpayer funding of the greatest elephant in the room, The Field Arts and Events Hall (another non-profit), Olympic Medical Center's endless land and building grabs such as a most recent, former Wells Fargo at Front and Race. It is somewhat depressing to list all the corruption taking place by the various levels of goverment, because when I begin naming them, the list keeps spawning so many others, and those are only the examples I know of. Another consideration worthy of mention, with regard to weather, climate, and geographic features, is that the earth is not static, which again, blows all the alarmists, and their out of context language out of the water. There are just enough loud mouths and paid activists to inflitrate and cause confusion via propaganda to create doubt in those who are less informed and easily led through fear and uncertainty.
Most of these environmental activist are brain washed by big govt,look how many years these restoration projects have been in place and with little to no improvements of fish stocks which are usually chum & pink the bottom of salmon stocks.Salmon stocks need lot's of deep water to survive.Radical hypocrites usually use environmental issues to squander tax $$$.
Excellent!😊
Many were listed as stormwater runs because the grade was too steep to be of spawning use. A fish culvert up a mountain. Somebody needs to be held accountable.
Accountability...what's THAT? Only for the 'little people'🥸
This all started when Gregoire was in office. And it is truly one of the most extravagant ways to blow billions of dollars.
Sure wish someone had the guts to do some INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM! Maybe someone from PDN...who should actually CARE about all this bs.
PDN has 2-2.5 reporters — one of which is really young and posted what amounts to an “orange man bad — libraries good” press release for North Olympic Library System today.
We have what we have and it is growing...visualize TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY AND TOUGH LOVE!😎
Paper Salmon.
Tastes like rice-cakes!😱
A new t-shirt...
Dear Representative
I know you don't know me but my name is Worked hard all my life American tax paying citizen.
I'm sorry to take your time and yes I'm not a lobbyist or a NGO from Germany but I wondered
if you had a minute to hear my suggestion on how to take care of some of these community problems your feeling. I have feelings too ! I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, I feel like somebody some where is stealing from me and I don't know who it is ? It feels like somebody has their hand in my pocket! Is that you Mrs Mr Representative? how did you do that your
not even in the same room ? Since your hands are deep in my pocket could you move your hand to the left a little now the right a little ? No you say! that's immoral ! Shame on me? Well that doesn't feel good !
thank you for taking my money for nothing! Can I at least have your Hand out ?
Thanks for pretending to listen:
Worked hard all my life American tax paying citizen>
(crying myself to sleep) not!
And continued under Ferguson as A.G.
The sad part of this for a fraction of what is being spent you could of unblocked virtually every VIABLE creek capable of supporting spawning salmon on the 101. Stream bank restoration could have been funded. But instead of using a targeted planned approach from the bays upstream it was allowed to be left up to the Judge who saw no other way to rule. My understanding (which may be incorrect) was that Ferguson refused to engage in a comprehensive plan. The A.G's refusal might have been a heads we win not spending any money to tails we also win resulting in losing the lawsuit but creating billions of dollars in in prevailing wage work. I just see a most egregious waste of money with poor results. If my assessment is incorrect please educate me.
Not about the 'fish'...although they do need some loving care...big die-off of the hatchery fingerlings at Dungeness...two diseases hitting them hard. 'Unusual' according to one of the staff there. Something in the air-food-water? Noooooo, it couldn't be!😱
The Indian valley culvert was put in in the late 1920’s, even then the forefathers had insight to make it large, great fish ladder and it was still lasting. Many of the workers on the project couldn’t believe it was being taken out. The salmon was having no problems coming down Indian creek to the Elwha.. what a waste
It would all be OK if they used some of those special laminated wooden beams to create the culverts. They make it all OK. I suspect they’re what is holding up the Sequim Library, too.
Having explored the topography around Knapp Road and the dry gulch labeled “Eagle Creek” extensively while birding over the years, I was astonished to see the horrors perpetrated upon us and the land with the construction of the new bridge there several years ago.
As your map shows, Eagle creek terminates into a playa (wet land) that has no outlet and never reaches the sea. The seasonal water flow percolates and evaporates away.
Physics aside, culverts by nature will always be far more navigable than bridges with massive flat bottom concrete pretensioned structures.
Salmon apparently fly in order to reach water that has and will never reach the sea.
Based on the tribes totem poles depicting salmon, apparently they believe they do indeed fly.
So we are being forced to pay mega millions for bridges accommodating flying fish who don’t need no stinking bridges in the first place.
As everyone knows by now, the jokes on us. We have been taken advantage of, taken to the cleaners by the tribes, courtesy of the liberal
United States courts.
We are living in an age of stupidity, & ignorance,
where common sense is no longer common, and in fact is rare to non-existent.
Personally I’m sick of being told to bend over and grab my ankles.
Repatriations have nothing to do with me or anyone else living today.
However, because a small subset of our population lives in lala land, we must therefore pay up with far more than just money.
What a huge disconnect!
First of all we wondered why the road was being resurfaced in Agnew on Old Olympic…..using county tax dollars so it wouldn’t be taken away next year in county budget? The road was perfectly good road, couldn’t the money be spent on other much needed projects, perhaps used to fix Three Crabs road instead? Now we know why the money was spent for the road repair we questioned. This is how & why we don’t trust our government…
The political power of the prevailing cone heads...
They needed to connect some sewer and water so 'the tribe' got that part of the contract.
There may be other behind the scenes reasons for that job as well...who knows whose palms were greased.
We certainly can't trust gov't but we used to be able to ignore it...now it's SHTF...and Here We Are!😊
Another great article Sylvester.
Stallone or the cat that was always trying to eat Tweety Bird?
Or the cat after Ozias.
Sylvester the mummy at Ye Ole Curiosity shop on Seattle Waterways
Of course!
'NOZIAS'...No more 'OZias'! The wizard of naught!
Dorothy and Toto for 2 of the Commissioners! 😳😂
What will it take to make all this bullshit end and reasonable thinking start?
Independents joining the Republicans in votes.
A massive 'natural' reset...but it's only good for a couple thousand years and then more of the same...time to move on to other realities!😁
Where do we sign up to be "disadvantaged" with millions and millions of dollars like the JK Tribe's businesses??? We have American Indian ancestry and the federal, state, county, and city governments are ALL trying to murder us with this STILL ongoing COVID & dangerous fake "vaccines" (bioweapons) ~!
What a load of pure crappola~!
Great job as always Jeff Tozzer~!
Sincerely, Mike
You're welcome, Mike.
"Then came the white dogs with their thick and empty heads they couldn't see past their billfold and wanted all the buffalo dead."
They loved the long knife and now they love the Dodge 4x4, nylon net and Aluminum boat. They have an entire federal agency that helps only them..
But
They are in a bad relationship, and I am too male and too pale...
Good one John Worthington~!
A review of the historic record absolutely proves that the worst events in history are always due to the criminals in government who use the most ignorant "useful idiots" in society to conduct their evil deeds~! Then, the rest of us who just wanted to live our peaceful lives in freedom always pay the price for the evil deeds of the worst in society in and outside of the corrupt government~! We, the Patriots, will no longer tolerate this evil cycle of evil can and must put an end to it once and for all~! Have a great day~! Sincerely, Mike
Say la vie on planet Urantia!😊
Many have wondered what man's destiny really is... As far as I know this is an age-old question... There are some very interesting Individuals who have found a presence Online who I find have fascinating things to say on the subject of man's (the humans) role on this "glob" of spinning dirt, rocks, gas, and water, and even "our" role in the Universe and beyond... The "beyond" thing has always intrigued me no end (pun intended). We all live in this world where nearly everything has limits, limits that we seem to be able to define, but what are the limits of space itself~? Are there no limits~? I am reading an interesting book "Holographic Universe" that has some brilliant concepts and indeed information that I find to be of value. I get this strange feeling that "we" earthly human-like creatures are only yet in the "kiddie pool" section of a VERY deep swimming hole~! Ha~! When those of us are throwing popcorn at the TV because we can so easily see the insanity of the "Tele-Vision" matrix, I often wonder who may be throwing popcorn at us~? ;-] Gobz of butter and salt please~! Ha! Well, my friend Robert, I will go where God wants me to go. Perhaps fussing about it and "time" itself, as I someday shed this old "meat suit" that has served me so well... Whatareyagonnado~? Sincerely, Mike
Very poetic, John!😊