http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2008/08/03/olympic-national-forest-is-now-on-the-flip-side/ Environmental reporter Christopher Dunagan discusses the challenges of protecting Puget Sound and all things water-related. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:16:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2008/08/03/olympic-national-forest-is-now-on-the-flip-side/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Cynic Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:50:24 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/?p=718#comment-1114 The farmers and residents in the lower Skokomish valley built on a natural flood plain. They would be flooded out periodically even if the upper valley was untouched. Roads that comprise less than 1% of the watershed can not possibly be "sending massive amounts of soil and gravel downstream". Flood plains flood, that is what they are there for. The farmers and residents in the lower Skokomish valley built on a natural flood plain. They would be flooded out periodically even if the upper valley was untouched. Roads that comprise less than 1% of the watershed can not possibly be “sending massive amounts of soil and gravel downstream”. Flood plains flood, that is what they are there for.

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