Olympic NP- Electro Magnetic Warfare Range

Perhaps you know, but it's very possible that you may not. The plans by the navy to tarnish the park but turning it into a high-speed jet trafficking electromagnetic warfeild is underway and has been largely covert. This is a BIG deal for reasons that are obvious and go without saying, no need to rant.

Below is a link to a petition for stopping the madness. I encourage everyone to get onboard with this.

www.change.org/p/undersecretary-robert-b...&utm_medium=copylink

Not this pile of FUD again.

"The real story here is the fact that kill teams in training will be conducting covert operations in and around residential communities and on public lands without our knowledge," she said.

Sullivan believes the general public needs to be concerned about the Navy's actions, along with the ongoing domestic military expansion as a whole, because they both present "an unprecedented and unlawful taking of public and private space for military activity." She points out that there is no plausible justification for the Navy's incursion into urban areas.

"The Navy has millions of acres of Defense Department land to train in," Sullivan said. "Now they're using and closing portions of our national forests. Why do they need to invade our neighborhoods, too?"

She also sees another threat from the Navy's exercises in state parks and private lands: the normalization of military activity "in our lives and in places where it has historically never been."

Like Gallant, Sullivan is not opposed to the military conducting trainings, in itself. She objects to the training happening in places where people live, work and recreate, and without the informed consent of the public.

"We object to the shell game that has passed for public process," Sullivan said. "We object to the Navy's apparent contempt for the laws of the land, and to the fact that the military is steadily moving off the millions of acres of land the public has given it for training, in order to practice warfare among us, the very citizens it is supposed to protect."

Learn more at:

www.truth-out.org/news/item/34367-exclus...n-domestic-war-games

truthoutdocs.cloudaccess.net/documents/1...FINAL_19AUG15-MP.pdf

truthoutdocs.cloudaccess.net/documents/1...FINAL_19AUG15-MP.pdf

I saw some military jets traveling east over Blue mtn on friday. First a pair of them and then one on its own a little later. Most of the commercial planes were headed North.

I tried to research as much as I could when news of this first came out a few months ago. From what I gathered:

- 10% increase in existing military air traffic over the peninsula
- temporary closure of logging roads no hiker would ever travel on anyway
- mobile microwave transmitter towers emitting no more radiation than a cell tower

It really didn't seem like as big a deal as the hysterics would suggest.

I tried to research as much as I could when news of this first came out a few months ago. From what I gathered:

- 10% increase in existing military air traffic over the peninsula
- temporary closure of logging roads no hiker would ever travel on anyway
- mobile microwave transmitter towers emitting no more radiation than a cell tower

It really didn't seem like as big a deal as the hysterics would suggest.

This is a BIG deal and the concerns are hardly hysterics especially to human and other inhabitants living under deafening Growler traffic overhead!!

This is a quote from the November 18 2014 letter the National Park Service wrote in response to the Navy's proposed Electronic Warefare Range:

Regarding Olympic NP specifically-Under Chapter 2, Section 2.7.1.1, it states that, "The Navy would increase the tempo of  air combat maneuver training from 160 events per year to 550 events per year due to the introduction of locally based EA-18G aircraft." This is an increase of 244%. Under Section 2.7.1.4 "Electronic Warfare," it states that, "Under Alternative 1 (the preferred alternative), the Navy proposes an increase in Electronic Warfare training from 2,900 events per year to 5,000 events per year with the proposed increase of additional electronic threat emitters in the Study Area." This is an increase of 72.4%. While the emitter sites identified in the Pacific Northwest Electronic Warefare Range/EA are not within the boundary of ONP, the military overflights are within the Olympic MOA which includes a portion of the non-coastal and nearly all of the coastal Congressionally-designated wilderness within ONP. ONP already receives complaints from visitors of very low flying military aircraft buzzing peaks and valleys wthin the wilderness area, outside of Olympic MOA.

Doctor Martin L Pall Phd Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Science, WA State University summs up the Navy's EA this way:

"In summary, then, regarding human, animal or plant effects of the EMFs it plans to use for electronic warfare: 1. The Navy today is at least 2000 times less knowledgeable than the Navy was 44 years ago in 1971; the Navy today is also at least 10,000 times less knowledgeable today than it should be. 2. The Navy provides not a single experimental study on biological effects of the EMFs it plans to use in the Olympic Peninsula. It provides, therefore not an iota of biological evidence to support any of its claims. 3. It provides not even a single citation to the scientific literature to support its claims. 4. The Navy claims are based entirely on the position that only thermal effects need be considered, a position that the Navy knew to be false 44 years ago and a position contradicted by many thousands of published scientific studies. That position is also contradicted by widespread scientific opinion expressed continuously over the past 44 years. 5. Low-intensity microwave frequency EMFs have been shown to produce the following effects in humans and other mammals via non-thermal mechanisms: Oxidative stress; genotoxicity including single and double strand breaks in cellular DNA as well as 8-hydroxyguanine residues in cellular DNA; these are thought, in turn to cause cancer when they occur in the somatic cells of the body; these are thought to also cause germ line mutations when they occur in germ cells, producing in turn deleterious mutations in future generations; male and female infertility; massive damage to the nervous system which in the brain produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects – such widespread neuropsychiatric effects were known to the Navy as shown in its 1971 report; breakdown of the blood brain barrier; cardiac effects including tachycardia and also bradycardia associated with arrhythmias and arrhythmias are known to often lead to sudden cardiac death – such cardiac effects were already known to the Navy as shown by its 1971 report; melatonin depletion and insomnia. The Navy provides not one iota of evidence to show that each of these effects will not be caused by the electronic warfare EMFs in the civilian population of the Olympic Peninsula. It is also of great concern that similar effects may well occur in the pilots of the F18 planes involved. 6. It can be seen from 5 above, that low intensity EMFs attack each of the 4 things we most value as individuals and as a species: Our health, our brain function, the integrity of our genomes and our ability to produce healthy offspring. The EIS provides not one iota of evidence that these 4 things will not be produced in civilians of the Olympic Peninsula and in the F18 pilots by the electronic warfare EMFs." Read the entire letter here:

westcoastactionalliance.org/wp-content/u...Elect_MartinPall.pdf

More comment letters from the public, Sierra Club, Seattle Audubon, to the Navy's proposed Electronic Warfare Range can be found here:
westcoastactionalliance.org/documents/comment-letters

The USFS Olympic region has received close to 4000 comments regarding their plans to approve a permit to allow the Navy to use local roads to place electronic emitters.

Read some of those comments here:

cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public//ReadingRoom?Project=42759