Tuesday's Illahee Preserve Meeting. One of the nice things about having the Press at a meeting is they have a deadline and one doesn't have to wait long for their report. Such was the case for the Illahee Preserve meeting on Tuesday (5-19-09).
Brynn Grimley Article. We have been impressed with the Kitsap Sun reporters and especially Brynn Grimley who frequently covers Illahee items. She did an excellent job of covering Tuesday's meeting - click on the following link for her story:
Monday's Illahee Community Meeting. One of the primary objectives of the Illahee Community meeting on Monday (5-18-09) was to see if the community could come up with a "counter proposal" to the Timbers Edge plans, that the Illahee Community could live with. There proved to be too many different thoughts and ideas expressed by attendees for there to be any consensus, so it was decided some of the key representatives would try to pull together the various issues and come up with a draft for the larger group to go over at a later meeting.
Other Actions. The Community did vote to establish a fund raising team to look at various options in anticipation of significant legal costs in the future. If anyone is interested in helping, let us know and we will pass your name on. The group also voted to establish a committee to look at the possibility of becoming a Wildlife Habitat sanctuary similar to the city of Shoreline.
Illahee State Park Email Comments. We received a number of responses, both verbal and written, regarding the email that we included in our last Update that expressed concern about the homeless using a mothballed Illahee State Park. We will pass along some of those comments in a later Update.
Status of the Nesting Goose. We finally have one gosling from the nesting goose family. It appears the nest was discovered by something on Wednesday evening as early Wednesday morning there was one gosling with the mated adults, one warm egg still on the nest, one egg that had evidently rolled down from the side-hill nest, and one egg that was some distance uphill that had been smashed and eaten. We were advised that we should put the remaining two eggs under a warming light to see if they might hatch, but now three days later, nothing has happened. If this is the same mating pair as last year they had a nearby nest of three eggs that never hatched and they eventually abandoned the nest, so I guess we should be happy to have the one gosling.Wildlife Stories? Let us know your wildlife stories so we can pass them on.
Jim Aho
