Regarding the March 26 letter in Peninsula Voices, “Wild Olympics,” the letter writer presents a plethora of red herrings asserting that the Olympic National Forest is protected by no less than 10 government agencies.
However, all of those red herrings the writer presented are totally irrelevant regarding the Wild Olympics proposal.
The gist of the Wild Olympics proposal is to preserve the last few remaining fragments of roadless wilderness that are left in the Olympic National Forest in its present state by procuring official congressional designation of those areas as wilderness.
An enormous amount of acreage in the Olympic National Forest was butchered right down to the stump during the 1970s through the early 1990s.
I viewed aerial imagery of the Olympic Peninsula taken in the early 1990s that appeared to depict a near perfect outline of the Olympic National Park boundary as a result of the overly excessive amount of clearcut logging that had transpired in the Olympic National Forest during that period.
I generally make it a practice not to chase red herrings.
However, I will make an exception to the bombastic assertion that the Olympic National Forest is protected under current Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who, in the eyes of many, is diametrically the opposite of someone who should be entrusted with the nation’s environmental protection agency.
Furthermore, in the eyes of many, entrusting the EPA under Pruitt is equivalent to entrusting Charlie Manson with overseeing the administration of the nation’s mental health care system.
Rick Sindars,
Port Angeles