I have always dreamed of a land that offered peace and beauty. A place one could walk among nature, hear the wings of fowl flying above, a place rich in riparian habitat, a place where deer and elk grazed, where ducks and geese graced the land with song, a place true and strong in natural beauty and virtue. In 2000 I found such a place, I was blessed.

2004 enter Columbia Land Trust an "enviormental preservation ' non governmental orgaization, I thought this is good the land will remain tomorrow as it is today rich in habitat, abundant in beauty, a wonderfull place. I convereced with the steward and asked for information on natural vegatation to keep in tune with nature. I thought all would be good.

Imagine my horror when trees began to be plowed over, splintered, destroyed, eagles nests runied, trees thrown into rivers, waterways buldozed/filled in, dikes breached, a 36 inch tide gate removed, replaced by two 13 foot culverets that swoosh salmon on to hay fields where they flop and die, grazzing lands destroyed. To my despair a county road altered a dike/road of mass perportions erected twelve feet high of rock, it is ugly. When waters come the waters push tons of gravel off this road filling the rivers with forgien substances, making the rivers shallow. This dike/road pevents anyone from walking with nature, no longer can one enjoy the scurry of animals and reptiles across the land as one walks, no longer can one meander and pick black berries or rose hips. One is no longer able to commune with nature the ugly CLT made monstrosity places man above nature, removed from tranquility, and life.

This monstosity is dangerous, my puppy slipped and rolled 12 feet down, I had to rescue him as the rocks were percarous. A veclile could easily roll off, one would not want to take a child walking in the area, it has been made dangerous to humans and habital alike. The natural beauty has been destroyed. Deer and elk no longer graze the fields, it has become a virtual waste land, a breeding ground for the West Nile Virus a mere shadow of the glorious place it once was. Destroyed by an organization that promised to perserve.



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