Everett Daily Herald, June 15, 2014

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A living LEGACY

OSO MUDSLIDE

Volunteer fire chief still faces huge task Firefighters are raising money to give Willy Harper time off from his day job to do slide-related work.

Since Mukilteo’s early days, Japanese Gulch has been a haven. Because of a long preservation effort, it will remain one.

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

OSO — The rural fire hall has returned to relative quiet these days. The caravans of fire trucks and medic units from other departments have long since departed. Yet there is still much to do for Oso Fire Chief Willy Harper. Major catasWilly Harper trophes, he is learning, cre➤ How you ate mounds of can help, A9 paperwork and follow-up tasks. For weeks, the fire hall was a hub for search and recovery efforts after a March 22 mudslide killed 43 people, erased a neighborhood and buried a See CHIEF, Page A9

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Kristin Kohorst pauses on a walk last week along one of the trails in Japanese Gulch, which is near her neighborhood in Mukilteo.

By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer

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A pileated woodpecker waits just below the entrance to its nest in a dead snag in Japanese Gulch.

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UKILTEO — The words on the real estate flier said it all: “Nature Lover’s Paradise.” It didn’t take Kristin Kohorst and her family long to decide after six months of househunting that their search was over. On April 22, 2009, they moved into a home with a deck overlooking a forested area adjacent to Japanese Gulch. Six months later, one of Kohorst’s neighbors came to her house, handling out fliers

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about a proposed development 75 feet from her front door that would strip the trees from the land to make way for a building and parking lots that a shipping company wanted to develop. The person handing out the fliers, Liza Patchen-Short, and her husband, Richard Emery, were among the early backers of a drive to save the gulch. Their interest had begun two years earlier when they found survey stakes in the wooded land that was privately owned but considered by many to be an informal public park. See LEGACY, Page A8

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