Swan Quarter Public Meeting On OLF
March 22, 2007
Doesn’t sound like there was much support for the Navy’s plan to use Site C according to the Washington Daily News.
“First of all, the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is a globally important bird area,” said FWS Director Dale Hall. Hall called the Navy’s plans to manage birds in that area “frankly in direct conflict” with the FWS mission.
Area residents many with strong ties to the military like lots of folks across this state are caught in a bind because they want to support the military but this choice of location is just not a good one.
One speaker said he considered the Navy’s proposal an insult, because the Navy has been studying the sites for years, but has not changed its OLF conclusions.
“It hurts my feelings to think that the Navy keeps coming back with a plan … like another dose of medicine,” Lake Landing resident David Fletcher said.
The people are speaking out but the question is all of this falling on deaf ears? The Navy certainly seems confident that their choice from the beginning is still the best one despite the numerous issues that have been raised and at best glazed over in reports. Killing the birds or manipulating this fragile environment to eliminate the dangerous these birds present is bad policy. The US Government has been in the business of protecting these birds and helping the populations to improve to throw all that away when there is other viable options available is just plain dumb.
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