• Bioblitz at PGFHP on April 27

    Posted on March 1, 2024

    Save the date: April 27 for a Bioblitz at PGFHP. Help our Kitsap Parks Dept. inventory plants, animals, and fungi in their natural environment. Team up with animal and plant experts to find, observe, identify, and document park wildlife. All ages are welcome, including children accompanied by adults. Learn more, and register. […]

  • Comment to Planners: Better Transportation Planning

    Posted on February 27, 2024

    Reclassifying rural property that encourages sprawl instead of focusing on growth in Urban Growth Areas will prevent Kitsap County from successfully enacting Comprehensive Plan policies and strategies for transportation and the new climate goals. Urban Growth Areas provide opportunities for multimodal transportation, focusing on routes that move people efficiently through centralized areas.

  • Comment to Planners: Tree Retention & Farm Support

    Posted on February 27, 2024

    I support Comp Plan Alternative 2 with focused growth in Urban Growth Areas. Plus, I encourage the adoption of tree retention. We need to build the health of rural and open spaces in Kitsap through the adoption of Net Ecological Gain and support our local farms, especially our small farmers who are struggling.

  • Comment to Planners: Riparian Management Zones

    Posted on February 27, 2024

    In contrast to current stream buffers in the prior CAO, Best Available Science calls for a broader perspective on what riparian management zones can do to protect streams, the salmon that rely upon them, and other wildlife that use these corridors. Site Potential Tree Height protects the natural environment we rely upon.

  • Comment to Planners: Regulatory Capture

    Posted on February 27, 2024

    In the last ten years, I have seen acres of forest and their wildlife disappear. Overdevelopment is eradicating the natural beauty that brought me to Kitsap. Is this because the regulatory bodies supposed to control growth and protect the environment instead act on the premise that any development, anywhere, should happen, if at all possible?