Peninsula Businesses Backing Wild Olympics

by | Jun 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |

Westport, WA – Scores of Peninsula business owners are joining local farmers, clergy and elected officials in applauding a measure introduced Thursday in Congress which would designate 126,000 acres of new wilderness in Olympic National Forest. Supporters say...

Wild Olympics poll shows strong support for proposal

by | Jun 22, 2012 | Uncategorized |

A Wild Olympics Campaign-commissioned poll of 500 possible voters in the 6th Congressional District said it found strong support for a proposal to designate about 130,000 acres of wilderness and protect 23 rivers and tributaries as “wild and scenic.”...

Murray and Dicks introduce Wild Olympics bill

by | Jun 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks introduced the Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2012 today, roughly three years after conservation and recreation groups started the conversation to expand protection...

Cosmopolis council was short-sighted

by | Jun 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |

I love Grays Harbor. I was born and raised here. As a child, I spent a lot of time on the docks of Westport where my father docked his boat. My father, Harry Harmon, a council member serving the great City of Cosmopolis for 23 years from 1952 to 1975, introduced me to...