Jim Ebbert, of the Tacoma USGS office, is tentatively scheduled to speak August 9th on the subject of pesticides and water quality. It was suggested that he might want to bring this to the CBP instead. J Roach reviewed some of the history on the pipeline project that resulted in rerouting Black Lake's outfall to the Puget Sound. Recently the U.S. Dept. of the Interior has contacted J. and indicated willingness to get all the parties together and discuss how to fix the problem. This is a very positive development in what has been a long journey for J. Efforts to get Black Lake and Black River going in the historical direction generated some interesting conversation.
Several entities have holdings or reserves of one sort or another along the Black River.
If these groups could all coordinate their efforts exciting things might happen. Margaret mentioned a citizen's initiative to create a wildlife corridor from Capitol Forest to Black River. Mark your calendars. The Porter - Montesano run is roughly 20 miles, so we're going to scout a shorter version. Several people mentioned that this stretch of the river is more interesting than Oakville - Porter.