Here's a collection of articles relevant to various issues we're working on.
About LFPSF
The Seattle P-I article about us! And a letter to the editor, following up on their Feb. 2 article about us.
Working with the City, we have placed a number of stream signs, urging citizens to be kind to their streams because these streams are "in their care." Read the Enterprise article about it.
We received our first grant from the Northwest Fund for Environment. Read an LFP Enterprise article about it.
We won our superior court appeal. Read an LFP Enterprise article about it.
Sustainable, green, "zero-impact" development techniques
A collection of sites on sustainable building, compiled by Seattle City Light
Tidepool article "Time to Try Zero Impact Development?"
Another Tidepool article "How do we live here?"
American Public Works Association (APWA) Reporter article, "'Zero runoff' development needed to protect watershed"
Puget
Sound Business Journal article "'Green' construction reduces waste and
impact"
Eugene, OR newspaper, The Register-Guard, article "Engineer stumps for unique homes"
"Putting the Ecological Infrastructure First", a book by William B. Honachefsky
Arcadia Journal article on sustainable building "Salmon in your building?"
About the LFP Bond proposal (Proposal #1 on the Nov. 7, 2000 ballot) for acquisition, development and preservation of parks and open space.
Seattle
Times' article on Prop #1
City of LFP web site article on Prop #1
About urban creeks
An LFP Enterprise article about salmon sighting in McAleer Creek, October, 2000. [page 1, page 2]
An article in Metropolitan Living April issue by Craig Romano about citizens, activists, environmentalists and government agencies working together to restore Seattle's urban creeks.
An article by William Dietrich, titled Stream Salvation (text only, the original has photos and maps).
Read related articles about life in the streams, and information about Urban Creek Week that's under way.
About the ramifications of habitat damage
Since the federal government declared Puget Sound chinook
salmon threatened under the Endangered Species Act last spring,
cities have scrambled to figure out how to protect fish, and to
protect themselves from lawsuits along the way.
[...] a treaty signed by Indian leaders and white pioneers in 1855. In exchange for giving up vast tracts of Western Washington, the tribes were
guaranteed fishing rights in perpetuity. The treaty stated:
"The right of taking fish at usual and accustomed grounds and stations is further secured to said Indians, in common with all citizens of the United States . . . provided, that they shall not take shellfish from any beds staked or cultivated by citizens."
Courts ruled 20 years ago that "in common with" means 50 percent of harvestable fish. The second clause has been interpreted to mean fishing rights include crab, shrimp, geoduck, clams, oysters and more. [...]
