March 26, 2012 CAPR MEETING
(Citizens Alliance of Property Rights, Clallam County Chapter 13)
The March 26, 2012 CAPR meeting will feature Bob Sauerwein, GOP Congressional candidate for the 6th District and Ed Bowen.
They will speak about the Wild Olympics Campaign and access to Wild and Scenic and Wilderness areas.
Mark your calendars and save your questions.
Karl Spees, President, CAPR13
Get to know the candidates. Jesse Young, GOP Congressional candidate for the 6th District in Washington State, will hold a meeting on
Bring a friend, and learn about Jesse's views on the issues.
Programs We're Watching
Destruction of the Elwha Dams - In 1992 a group of government backed radical-environmentalists and our non-representative elected government officials using the pretext of restoring fish, freeing the river, and turning back the clock successfully steamrolled the agenda of removing the Elwha Lake/dams. The Left’s success (using our tax dollars) in ramming this insane plan down our throats gave them the ‘green light’ for taking by regulation and mandate of all manner of private property and private property rights. The more clearly the defenders of private property rights understand this pivotal event, the more forearmed we will be in defense of our remaining rights. (Read the full story here)
Karl Spees - Pres. ‘CAPR 13’
WRIA 18 Instream Flow Rule The State Department of Ecology is writing a rule granting water rights to the Dungeness River and the small streams in Eastern Clallam County, introducing new regulations restricting irrigation and domestic wells and authorizing a "waterbank" that will commoditize the water that the rule will remove from future growth and some of its current beneficial uses. We oppose the adoption of this rule in its present form and intend to take legal action if it is adopted.
WRIA 19 Watershed Management Plan. This an early stage in the development of an instream flow rule for the Lyre and Hoko Rivers. We are cooperating with local groups from that inventory area.
Shorelines Master Program Clallam County is beginning a three-year process of updating its SMP. That ordinance will regulate marine shorelines, the shorelines of lakes larger than a minimum size, and of streams and rivers with at least 20 cfs of flow, with the exceptions that it does not regulate Federal or Tribal lands nor lands subject to the Forest Practices Act nor within city limits. We are watching and intend to participate in the development of this ordinance.