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...