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Page 10 <strong>Huckleberry</strong> <strong>Press</strong> June 16, 2016<br />
Letter to the Editor:<br />
This past week the Forest Service arranged for a mediating group called EnviroIssues<br />
to host a Public Hearing Session concerning the revised Colville National Forest Plan -- a<br />
plan that will affect every citizen in the area, whether directly or indirectly, over the next<br />
decade or longer. Very few were at that meeting, so, for the benefit of the broader community,<br />
one of the several citizen presentations is submitted here as follows:<br />
If we were a Constitutional County, as a legal subdivision within the State of Washington<br />
according to Article XI of the WA Constitution, wouldn’t we lawfully have full jurisdiction<br />
of the whole area and extent of our county?<br />
If we were a constitutionally abiding County, wouldn’t the State rightfully sanction our<br />
right of full legal jurisdiction of our county and not allow it to be infringed?<br />
Since a national forest is, by definition, a federal construct within our county’s borders,<br />
shouldn’t the federal government -- which is a limited entity with clearly enumerated powers,<br />
including minimal land-holdings -- be required to be subject to, and fully coordinate with,<br />
the States and specifically the counties affected by its occupation of portions of that county?<br />
How is it, then, that the federal agency called the National Forest Service, considers it<br />
IT’S HERE!<br />
Custom DeCks<br />
“Built to last a lifetime.”<br />
irrelevant in real practice to subordinate its authority to that of the State, and the State’s legal<br />
subdivisions, namely the counties?<br />
As a free people in contract with the federal government through the U.S. Constitution,<br />
we assert our rightful jurisdiction over the lands within our respective counties, and we assert<br />
the legal necessity of the federal agency, the Forest Service, to coordinate its efforts with our<br />
elected officials for the authority to manage the lands within our borders so as to preserve our<br />
county’s culture, economy, and assets, which ultimately provides for the general welfare of<br />
our country as a whole.<br />
Respectfully submitted,<br />
Kelly Tacoma, Northport, WA<br />
JESUS SAID:<br />
I am the way,<br />
the truth,<br />
and the life<br />
John 14:6<br />
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