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Vol. 30 No. 4 • April
Option extended one year Coalition has raised enough to buy Shoreline Block, some uplands By MEGAN STEPHENSON
Staff Writer
PORT GAMBLE — The Kitsap Forest & Bay Coalition announced March 27 it has received a one-
year extension in its effort to buy Pope Resources’ 7,000 acres of forestland and shoreline in North Kitsap. The option agreement between
Forterra, representing the Kitsap Forest and Bay Coalition, and Pope Resources has been extended to March 28, 2014, Forterra Executive Vice President Michelle Conner said. “We really appreciate Pope [Resources’] cooperation and the leadership of Kitsap County and the two Tribes to make this possible.”
Pope Resources wants to sell its North Kitsap forestland and focus on further developing Port Gamble. The option means Pope is holding off on putting its 7,000 acres on the market, to give the coalition time to raise money for acquisition. The coalition wants to acquire the land and shoreline for public See OPTION, Page 2
Saving a place called home
Editor
T
he two-story white duplex at Point No Point Light Station was built in 1880 as a residence for the lighthouse keeper and assistant keeper. But the old house tells as much about family life at the remote outpost as it does the men who kept the light burning and horns sounding for ships transiting Admiralty Inlet. A steady succession of children played on the grass and beach here. The first, of course, were
Pope, DOE reach pact on cleanup of mill site Cleanup could begin in 2014 By RICHARD WALKER
Editor
Point No Point Light keepers’ residence targeted for restoration By RICHARD WALKER
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William H. Cary, with parrot on his shoulder, pauses for a photo in the Point No Point Light Station garden in 1918. Cary was lighthouse keeper from 1914-1937. The garden was located south of the lighthouse and keepers’ residence. U.S. Lighthouse Society S’Klallam, whose ties to the area are memorialized in stone — literally — in a monument on the station grounds. George and Mollie Maggs were the first children to live in the lightkeepers’ residence, and Mollie was born there in 1880; a second-floor room, next to a larger bedroom, may have been her nursery.
The children’s father, John S. Maggs, was the first lighthouse keeper here (1879-1884); he had served as a lighthouse keeper in Victoria, B.C., and represented Clallam County in the territorial legislature from 1869-71. Maggs is believed to have planted the holly tree in the house’s east yard. The tree is visible in a photo from the 1880s.
In the west yard, a perennially green patch of lawn is a reminder of the cistern that provided water for early inhabitants of the keepers’ residence. The cistern stored rainwater that was captured by gutters on the roof of the house. The Maggses, Jankinses, Scannells and families that followed undoubtedly supplemented See RESTORATION, Page 16
PORT GAMBLE — The state Department of Ecology and Pope Resources have agreed on a cleanup plan for the old Port Gamble mill site and shoreline. Ecology spokesman Seth Preston said the cleanup opinion could begin in 2014. n Partnerships and Ecology patience announced are buildthe agreeing North m e n t Kitsap’s March 22. future. According to Ecology, — Page 4 the agency and Pope Resources will sign a consent decree, which is a legally binding agreement that will lay out how the cleanup of contaminated, in-water sediments will be designed and carried out. Pope Resources estimates the cost of cleaning Port Gamble Bay to be roughly $17 million; it will negotiate a share of those costs with the state Department of Natural Resources, which has some liability because it leased aquatic land to Pope & Talbot, from which Pope Resources spun off. According to Pope, the latest agreement opens the See CLEANUP, Page 3
New ed center for S’Klallam’s ‘future leaders’ By MEGAN STEPHENSON
ECRWSS POSTAL CUSTOMER
Staff Writer
LITTLE BOSTON — The newest building on the Port Gamble S’Klallam reservation is a window into the future. It houses the Tribe’s early edu-
cation program — Head Start, Early Head Start and child care — and highlights what and how children of the 21st century learn. The roof garden features native plants, a reflection of the Tribe’s commitment to environmental
stewardship. Surrounding the building, more native flora form a raingarden where children can learn about sustainability; the raingarden also filters water runoff See HEAD START, Page 5
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