Samish Hill Logging Area

Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 3:50 am  //  Dick Conoboy

The city published a Notice of Application and Optional DNS* Process on October 5, 2016 with a comment period of only two weeks for a logging operation of a substantial nature on Samish Hill.  The operation, under a Type II process (administrative decisions), would remove 30% of the trees in a 110 acre, single-family zoned area over a period of 4-6 weeks involving 25-30 log-truck loads per week, i.e., from 100 to 180 loads over the period of the operation.  That represents from 200 to 360 individual truck trips if one counts round trips. […]

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