The article “75% of North American chicken species in decline” (Might 2, Nation & World) hits residence domestically, as a result of potential injury to Magnuson Park’s wetland chicken 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 complicated inside a stone’s throw of the wetlands preserves during which we invested $3 million of our metropolis taxpayer funds and hundreds of thousands extra in different public cash about 20 years in the past. Impacts from noise and lightweight air pollution have to this point been downplayed or ignored. Parks’ Magnuson Park proposal comes after the sound defeat of a smaller pickleball mission proposal in West Seattle’s Lincoln Park, on account of public outrage over comparable chicken impacts.
It is likely to be time for the Seattle Metropolis Council to start out being attentive to Parks’ insensitive environmental file and absolutely deal with this mission’s impacts on chicken populations, human wetlands path customers and close by residents
Tim Bernthal, Seattle (pickleball fanatic and Birds Join Seattle member)
