• URGENT ACTION NEEDED PG Heritage Forest Park Master Plan – Comment period

    Posted on April 17, 2022

    The following is from our March 17th,2022 KEC Newsletter Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park Draft Master Plan While we appreciate the opportunity and responsibility we have with the PG Forest Heritage Park as well as the hard work of many professionals and volunteers, the draft Master Plan has serious flaws related to environmental impact and […]

  • KITSAP GREAT GIVE & Saving Kitsap’s Natural Treasures by Nancy Sefton and KEC members

    Posted on April 14, 2022

    Did you ever find yourself “tsk-tsking” as you drove by those ugly forest clear cuts, a Kitsap County eyesore?  Several local woodlands have falling to the chain saws; with them goes the wildlife that once thrived there.  Does anyone care?  Thankfully, yes! In mid 2018, a new group was formed: the Kitsap Environmental Coalition.  Its […]

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    2021 Year In Review – The Eglon Forest

    Posted on February 7, 2022

    2021 Year In Review – The Eglon Forest Eglon Forest By Carol Price Statement from the Suquamish Tribe: The Eglon area is within the Ancestral Territory of the Suquamish Tribe. Ethnographic data demonstrate the Suquamish camped at the mouths of creeks in the Eglon vicinity as they fished for salmon and hunted deer. There has […]

  • 2021 Year In Review – Attending to Kitsap County Issues

    Posted on February 7, 2022

    2021 Year In Review – Attending to Kitsap County Issues KEC Attends to County Issues By Reed Blanchard   North Kitsap Maintenance Facility. KEC has repeatedly brought concerns to the Kitsap County Public Works Department and the County Commissioners about the establishment of the North Kitsap Maintenance Facility near the intersection of Bond Rd and […]

  • 2021 Year In Review – State and Regional Networking

    Posted on February 7, 2022

    2021 Year In Review – State and Regional Networking KEC recognizes that environmental issues in our county are tied to bigger systems of government, corporate power, and lack of public information. KEC cannot address them alone. It is only as we band together with others across the state and region that we can have an […]