Action Opportunity on OLF: 10 minutes is all it takes

Submitted by James on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 9:38am

This from the Southern Environmental Law Center, a great organization representing the farmers and environmentalists who are fighting the OLF.

TEN MINUTES OF YOUR TIME CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

You have an important opportunity to help prevent the Navy from constructing a destructive outlying landing field (OLF) next to Pungo Lake and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and near Lake Phelps and Pettigrew State Park. The Navy’s decision to construct the landing field must be consistent with North Carolina’s coastal management program. North Carolina’s coastal management program designates Pungo Lake and Phelps Lake as Areas of Environmental Concern. As Areas of Environmental Concern, Pungo Lake and Phelps Lake must be managed to maintain their biological, aesthetic, and economic values.

If you enjoy Pungo Lake and/or Phelps Lake, the spectacular waterfowl, and the peaceful settings, please EMAIL or WRITE the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management BY MARCH 16 AND ENCOURAGE THE DIVISION OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT TO DETERMINE THAT THE NAVY’S OLF IS INCONSISTENT WITH NORTH CAROLINA’S COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.

If you visit Pungo Lake and the refuge, or Phelps Lake, tell the agency why. If you are concerned about the impacts of a landing field on the swans and geese, let the agency know. If you spend money in the area on your visit, let the agency know. If you just enjoy knowing these wild places exist, tell the agency. AGAIN, ENCOURAGE THE DIVISION OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT TO DETERMINE THAT THE NAVY’S LANDING FIELD IS INCONSISTENT WITH MAINTAINING THE BIOLOGICAL, AESTHETIC, AND ECONOMIC VALUES OF PUNGO LAKE.

It is very important to generate quickly as many letters and emails as possible. Together, we can stop this ill-advised Navy landing field and protect Pungo Lake and Phelps Lake, the wildlife refuge, and the waterfowl for future generations.

Send emails to: Stephen.Rynas@ncmail.net

Send letters to:

Division of Coastal
Attn: Stephen
NC DENR
400 Commerce Avenue
Morehead City, NC 28557

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Bus from Raleigh to Plymouth

Submitted by chartreuse dog on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 9:44am.

Wake Audubon is chartering a bus from Raleigh to go to the hearing in Plymouth on April 4, leaving Raleigh around 1:00 p.m. and returning late, probably around midnight. Cost is $15.00 per person. Contact lena_gallitano [at] ncsu [dot] edu for more info or to reserve your seat.

I just printed out ten letters

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 10:36am.

Each individual member of my family will send a letter.

Now to the emails.

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.



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Vote Democratic, the ass you save may be your own.

Just noticed

Submitted by chartreuse dog on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 11:03am.

part of the address in your post is cut off. s/b:

Division of Coastal Management
Attn: Stephen Rynas
NC DENR
400 Commerce Avenue
Morehead City, NC 28557

Email sent

Submitted by Stan on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 11:57am.

n/t

Stan Bozarth

Easley

Submitted by James on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 4:17pm.

encourages hunters to help fight the OLF. Adversity makes strange bedfellows, no?

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

that move is now classic

Submitted by Blue South on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 11:39pm.

hunters and fishers are starting to realize what the actual effects of voting republican are. they can now kill a duck with an AK-47, assuming they can actually find a duck. And, if they kill that duck, they probably wouldnt want to eat it since it is breathing toxic chemicals 24-7.

I cant wait till enough dems get the cojones to talk to hunters and fisherman. once we engage them they will either splinter, and stop being a republican stronghold, or come to our side in good numbers.

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Petition

"Keep the Faith"

Please help this cause....

Submitted by parmea on Wed, 03/14/2007 - 8:10pm.

A diffrent way of looking at this request.

To help build the case, here’s what’s needed: (1) statements that you (or anyone who’s writing DCM) go to Pungo Lake and/or Phelps Lake to see birds, and the operation of the OLF will displace the birds and ruin that experience; (2) you go to these places also to enjoy the beauty, quiet and solitude, commune with mature/meditate/experience transcendence/etc., and get away from city/town life, and the noise from the OLF will destroy that experience; (3) when you engage in these activities, you spend money in the community – go to restaurants, stay overnight in hotels/b&bs/inns or camp – and you tell other people that this is a great ecotourism destination. The OLF will drive you and other ecotourists away. These statements are needed because state regulations require the Division of Coastal Management to protect the “biological, aesthetic and economic values” of public trust areas of environmental concern, which includes state waters such as the lakes. Demonstrating how the OLF violates these values provides the state with the legal basis they need to deny consistency.

You can send your comment in the form of an email. All you have to do is read this quote, and knock it down to something close to what you want to say.

This CAMA concern is also part of comment period but is spererate from the NEPA process comment period. So their is two comments periods active right now.

Also, another concern I have about this CAMA request, is teh Navy is making us comment on a DRAFT. The final will not be availlible for some time yet. Why are they requiring us to comment now on a DRAFT? I will also be asking that within my comments.

IMO, we should be commenting on a the final plan the navy is proposing, not something that will change.

Part of my comments with regard to this

Submitted by parmea on Thu, 03/15/2007 - 9:41pm.

They intend to kill anything that gets in their way. Birds, redwolfs, geese, swans. They are going to turn 30,000 acres of lands that have been mutually coexisting with man and animals for countless years and make it a place where man nor animals are wanted or can live.

and

The birds cannot read this FEIS or DSEIS. They do not know that the Navy is about to take these 30,000 acres from them. They will continue to come back to this region, they will continue to fly from outside the 30,000 acres across this blighted area to get to the other side where there is food for them. They will intersect with a Navy jet and both those birds will come to the earth. One a dead animal, one a human who may survive and one will be a balistic missle going in the last direction given by the pilot until it also finds the ground. The only way to get these birds to forget about this region is to not allow them to get near this OLF site. The only way to do that is to eliminate them from coming back year after year. Which means killing them off. According to the Navy studies, these birds will become acclamated to everything the Navy can throw at them with the exception of a gun or poison. Its extremely hard to get used to lead flying thru you, or poison in your system. That is the only effective BASH option. This option is not wanted or needed for this region, and I am strongly opposed to those options.

I spared yall the entire tyrate but I think from a habitat point of view, this statement sums it up.