So, I was contacted by Evan Bush, of The Seattle Times regarding Greenwater, FS70. He asked a lot about our cleanups, what we see as an issue out there, some of the ways to resolve it and questions about if the residents are over-reacting and if the USFS is doing enough to listen to all parties.

I, of course, supported responsible firearm shooting. I mentioned that the lower clearcut should be adjusted to herd the shooters to face the hill side and not just park along the road and shoot into the trees. We talked about trash, a lot. And how we, as a community, combat that by doing cleanups, educating the shooting public and having signage to get more volunteers. We talked about the few tarnishing the many. That most shooters are responsible, but the acts of a few put us all into the same pot. He asked about how busy that location was and why. I compared it to Seattle and its freeways. Firearm ownership is on the rise, but places to safely shoot are declining. Because of that, you will have more people trying to use the same space. Opening up MORE safe shooting areas would be a much better alternative. I mentioned the pits that closed off of I-90 and how that made people go out to greenwater, that closing pits will not stop recreational shooting.

He said the article should be out end of this week....

Nice job, Dan!

Way to go, Dan!

Now we wait and see how much gets edited to fit their agenda. "Dan from WaGuns says there are too many shooters and too much trash."

Yhea, the spin always worries me.

I was just contacted by Martie the head ranger in that area today and guess what. Someone blew something up in the middle of the night and caused a fire off FS7013. Not sure if it was the clear cut that we clean but the fire was about 10 by 13 feet in length. The Crystal River Ranch community is outraged and using this to try and shut down target shooting off 410 once again.

Nice job, Dan. It sounds like you hit all of the important points . . . and every single one of them is true. No need to lie or embellish.

Sigh... Would be interesting to hear more about this, where it was etc. I saw the email and would think that if there was a danger to the community and to the responders that the LEO on the scene would've handled it. I would also like to see if this was caused by "shooters" or by campers who had a bonfire and there just happened to be shooting nearby.

I sent out a few e-mails asking for more details. Either way campers and target shooters are all the same to the local residents. I also brought up altering the 7013 forest clearing to prevent fires, safer shooting, etc. if they can do what Oregon has done this would be great http://trashnoland.org/lanes.html

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/flying-bullets-target-shooting-trash-rile-greenwater-residents/ Ok the article is out and Chris Hurst is a ...yeah

She had finally got to two LEOs (one for NB/Skyk, one for Greenwater/Enumclaw), and one quit.

King 5 is doing a report on target shooting sometime after 6:30.
Preview showed a bad garbage pit.

Chris Hurst has added his personal email and phone number in the comments if anybody wants to talk to him about his viewpoints. Respectfully, of course.

Boy, you nailed that one. No surprise it is a red neck gun toting slam piece.
No real mention of the cleanups the firearms community has done.
"Forest service and Volunteers" There was no way that talking to the Times was going to turn out well.

Make sure you watch the video as well. There is no reasoning with this Chris guy, you can tell he's one tracked minded

He mentions us in what seems like a good light in the comment section.

I will reach out to him next week. If we can stay on the good side of lawmakers as much as possible it may bode well.