https:\/\/www.tvw.org\/watch\/?clientID=9375922947&eventID=2020051011<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nYes, it does take some effort but it’s a heck of a lot better than pre-Covid, when you had to basically take the day off of work to drive down to Olympia to make a 3-minute comment – not feasible for many people.<\/p>\n
(Meanwhile, the lobbyists and industry representatives who are also making comments are on their company’s clock and being paid to be there – a bit eyebrow-raising when you think about it from a democracy standpoint.)<\/p>\n
Let’s hope Board of Natural Resources sticks with the webinar format for public comments on timber sales once Covid restrictions are lifted. <\/strong>It certainly seems like a more democratic process when the public doesn’t have to take an entire day to travel to Olympia to comment on a timber sale that DNR wants to log in their back yard.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s how to comment on a proposed timber sale at the monthly WA Board of Natural Resources meetings held remotely by webinar every month. Next Meeting: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 9 a.m. These meetings are public-friendly. Public comments are taken at the start of the meeting. Please make your voice heard, very few people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyvalleyfuture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}