Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 hope.
2 This may sound very abstract, but recently
3 we removed two dams on the Elwha River. And the
4 college attendance rates among particularly native
5 populations of high school students on the Olympic
6 Peninsula have gone up. I fear the opposite will
7 occur if we build this facility. You should evaluate
8 the impact on our young people's future, including
9 their hope.
10 With the rest of the time I'd like to focus
11 just on one species that's listed under the Endangered
12 Species Act, the Marbled Murrelet. It's a small
13 northwest bird; it cannot speak for itself.
14 In a pivotal 2010 paper the primary feeding
15 habitat for the Washington State Marbled Murrelet is
16 within San Juan County. I strongly encourage you to
17 study the impact on the Marbled Murrelet. Thank you.
18 o-O-o
19 KENNETH SEBENS: Hello. My name is Ken
20 Sebens. I am a biologist at the University of
21 Washington and director of the University of
22 Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan
23 Island.
24 Today I'm speaking as a member of the Marine
25 Resources Committee for San Juan County. The MRC has
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