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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







RESOLUTION #1: PROPOSED BLANCHARD HILL NATURE PRESERVE (Mt. Baker Hiking Club, Bud Hardwick)


The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs opposes clear-cut timber on Blanchard Hill in Skagit County, Washington (15 miles south of Bellingham).  We support the proposed purchase of the land for a Blanchard Hill nature preserve because the location is unique.  It is the most western point of the North Cascades Mountain Range and the only location where the Cascade mountains are contiguous with marine waters.
Blanchard Hill was heavily logged 60-70 years ago.  In the Spring of 2000 the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) clear-cut 40 acres of Blanchard Hill timber and used the revenue for local schools.  Another 287 acres are proposed for clear-cutting by the year 2003.

In 1998, the Mount Baker Group of the Sierra Club proposed that the DNR reclassify 3,000 acres from commercial forestry to a Natural Resource Conservation Area.  They also asked that Blanchard Hill be incorporated into the adjoining Larrabee State Park.  The current cost for acquiring the 3,000 acres of land ranges from $20 million to $45 million.
Please contact: William Wallance, Manger, NW Region, Department of Natural Resources, 919 North Township Street, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 and Jennifer Belcher, Commissioner of Public Lands and Howard Thronson, Division Manger of Forest Resources, P.O. Box 47016, Olympia, WA 98504.  Ask them to support the designation and transfer.  Also, please write to Washington State Representatives Jeff Morris, Dave Quall, Doug Ericksen, Kelli Linville, and Washington State Senators harriet Spanel and Georgia Gardner, Olympia, WA 98504.






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