Silt is our recent history, WashingTons of it. Forestry practices leave bare dirt leading to soil runoff. Clear-cutting: our Stanwood area is much like Vancouver Island except only ~45% of our area’s forests are publicly owned – compared to 95% of BC’s 285-mile-long island. This writer’s grandparents arrived by ship
into Centerville (renamed Stanwood) that was then a deep-water seaport with wharfs to be built, oysters raised, WW II landing craft produced, fishing fleets sailed, and a marina existed … now gone, silted over. If dirt washing down from clear-cut mountain slopes destroyed this seaport in a year’s time, people would notice; “not so much” in a person’s full lifetime. With Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) land being “owned by the people,” we have only ourselves to blame; doing nothing about it is a decision to continue not to care … favoring monoculture over biodiversity (doubly true in Canada). Clear-cutting, washing the lands in herbicides every 50 years, then allowing the Glyphosate rich soil to wash downhill/downstream and replacing 100s of plant species with a single species clone has touched a nerve in Canada to our west. We are on a path to native plant species extinctions and bare rock hillsides, dictating how our grandchildren are to live. Leaving private wheat, strawberry, and tree farm property owners out of this discussion, the public who owns their own large forests appears careless. For those who say this is factually incorrect, use any Internet mapping program and view the silt in which nothing grows that surrounds Center(ofsilt)ville today … or does one not believe their lying eyes?
http://www.gfhistory.org/Maps.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearcutting
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Herbacides-Pesticides.pdf
https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00018&segmentID=3
https://www.sierraclub.org/grassroots-network/stop-clearcutting-ca/about-clearcutting
https://www.goskagit.com/townnews/economics/exploring-history-the-fishing-history-of-stanwood-camano-island/article_944695f6-5635-11ed-852f-773a74e6d538.html
Who owns over 50% of the land of the State of Washington?
Microsoft
We the people, Federal and State owners
The Chinese Government
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