The article “75% of North American hen species in decline” (Could 2, Nation & World) hits house regionally, because of the potential harm to Magnuson Park’s wetland hen well being that could be coming down the pike quickly.
Seattle Parks and Recreation plans to construct an 80,000-square-foot, 25-court pickleball advanced inside a stone’s throw of the wetlands preserves by which we invested $3 million of our metropolis taxpayer funds and tens of millions extra in different public cash about 20 years in the past. Impacts from noise and light-weight air pollution have to this point been downplayed or ignored. Parks’ Magnuson Park proposal comes after the sound defeat of a smaller pickleball challenge proposal in West Seattle’s Lincoln Park, as a result of public outrage over related hen impacts.
It is perhaps time for the Seattle Metropolis Council to begin being attentive to Parks’ insensitive environmental report and absolutely tackle this challenge’s impacts on hen populations, human wetlands path customers and close by residents
Tim Bernthal, Seattle (pickleball fanatic and Birds Join Seattle member)
