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Residents tell council to keep wetland buffers, say local creeks have been filled
Summary
At the April 1 administrative session, a wildlife biologist and conservation committee chair urged Snohomish County to retain current wetland buffers and pointed to recent filling of a ravine and loss of stream habitat as evidence the county must protect critical areas.
Martha Jordan, a wildlife biologist and longtime resident, told the Snohomish County Council on April 1 that reductions to wetland buffer zones would harm local streams and wildlife.
“It's just science,” Jordan said, recounting years of local changes she described as the filling of a ravine that used to be a creek, loss of intermittent streams and loss of salmon in a section she identified as North Creek. Jordan said she…
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