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Welcome to the Friends of the Carbon Canyon website.
The Friends of the Carbon Canyon are a group of people committed to
the protection and the preservation of the pristine Carbon Canyon area.
The Carbon Canyon is northwest of Mount Rainier in Washington state and includes the unique
and ecologically important rainforest north of the Mt. Rainier National Park boundary.
Be sure to check out the
Current Happenings for the latest news,
upcoming meeting and events!
If you have news or announcements to
share with your community, please send me an email and we'll post them
here. This website is your forum. Feel free to use it.
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"We formed Friends of the Carbon Canyon in
1996, when three mudslides from logging sites just missed our loaded school
bus.
With our core group of locals, we've expanded to 300-400+ people on our
mailing list who are also concerned about the Upper Carbon Valley.
As a
watchdog group, we've tackled things such as; dangerous logging and it's
chemical spraying near our houses; meth labs; poaching; garbage dumping;
etc.
We've also brought attention to private land sales to assist in getting
them into public hands for future recreation lands, with over 2,500 acres
already set aside.
We've also insisted on 'corporate responsibility' from
companies doing business here. Our newest mission is to keep septage from
being sprayed into our waters.
My personal concern is the fish and animals.
The heavy logging and it's poisons, and the trapping wiped out everything
from bugs and birds and bees to our
migrating herds and other mammals. I'd
like my grandchildren's grandchildren to see this rainforest like I remember
from my youth wild and mossy and
beautiful and full of life like a
rainforest should be !!!!"
Mardel Chowen South Prairie
We must keep WAC
197-11-305 in effect because it is our only tool to make any difference.
