Protecting Wild Forests and Rivers We Love for Clean Water and Salmon We Need

Welcome to The Wild Olympics Campaign!

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We are a coalition working to protect wild forest and river watersheds on the Olympic Peninsula. These watersheds provide local communities with clean water, unmatched outdoor recreation opportunities and sustain our outstanding Peninsula way of life. They are vital to the health of Hood Canal and Puget Sound and are critical habitat for wildlife, steelhead and salmon. The Campaign is working with other local citizens and community leaders to establish new Wilderness, Wild and Scenic River and willing seller National Park designations for these natural treasures.

Over the past year, we have been reaching out to other local stakeholders to build support, listen to concerns and get feedback on our draft proposal. We have met with timber interests, local elected officials, Tribes, conservation groups, backcountry horsemen, mountain bikers, businesses, shellfish growers, community leaders, sport and commercial fishermen and other local residents. Along the way, we have refined our draft conservation vision to address many issues and requests from different local constituencies. We continue to reach out to different groups to grow support, work to address concerns and refine our draft proposal today.

As we enter a new phase of public consultation with the launch of this web site, we invite you to join the discussion. Please review the latest versions of our draft discussion maps and give us your feedback in the comments section. If you like what you see, please join the more than 1,500 other Olympic Peninsula residents who have voiced their support for our wild Olympic natural heritage by signing on to our online petition.

Connie Gallant on Hood Canal

 

Thank you for your interest and welcome to the discussion!

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Connie Gallant
Quilcene, WA
The Wild Olympics Campaign Chair
July 2010

Wild Olympics Campaign Launches New Website

Broad Coalition Seeks Additional Community Input on Watershed Protection

  Contacts: Bob Lynette 360-461-0761; Connie Gallant 360-710-7235

The Wild Olympics Campaign today launched a new website (www.wildolympics.org) to provide information and solicit additional community feedback on their draft proposal to protect key forest and river watersheds on the Olympic Peninsula. The Campaign has been meeting with local stakeholders for the past year to build support and get feedback on their draft proposal for new wilderness, Wild and Scenic River and willing seller National Park additions for Peninsula watersheds.

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