Loophole allows landowner to avoid city requirements By David Stalheim, WEC Secretary In 2017, the City of Bellingham issued a Critical Areas and Clearing Permit to allow harvest of trees at Samish Heights. The conditions of those permits limited the harvest to 30% of the trees and required protection of critical wildlife habitat and buffers around Class I mature forested wetlands. This overview of the forests and wetlands was submitted to the City as part of the landowners application to...

Rick Dubrow (June 1, 2024) Six years into my retirement, on 8-23-24, I met with Carl Weimer for a beer. It was time for me to explore...