Olympic NP- Electro Magnetic Warfare Range

To be clear, I said it doesn't correlate to an equivalent increase in air traffic. You claimed (or insinuated) a 72% increase in EM training events meant a 72% increase in military air traffic. That's incorrect, because most military traffic is not EM training.

You can throw numbers around like that to scare or cleverly deceive people, but it's disingenuous.

Thus, while there may be a 72% increase (or whatever) in EM training events, that can still be consistent with the 10% increase in air traffic that the Navy is claiming.

Those figures are quoted from the National Parks Service in their letter to the Navy. I am not making them up. I am making them available for you to see. 

Yes, this is scary stuff and I am afraid.  I don't want to see precious public lands sacrificed for the mlitary war games, or electromagnetic warfare.   Look at the documents. There is nothing clever, deceiving or disingenuous about the truth.   

This isn't the only place in the world where military expansionism is occuring.

In a January 8 2015 article by Carol Miller Connecting the Dots: US Military Expansionism – at Home and Around the World she writes, "The Pentagon has transformed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into a sham and a shame. NEPA never protects any “environment,” it just tells the public, at great cost, how the Pentagon and its contractors intend to despoil."

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”Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.”  Ben Franklin

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”Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.”  Ben Franklin

You should at least get the quote right:

Benjamin Franklin wrote: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

You should at least get the quote right:

Thanks Randy. I am duly chastened. 

The latest from Westcoast Action Alliance

"On Sunday, May 1, official resolutions opposing the Navy's plans and highlighting their lack of regard for public health and the environment were passed (most of them unanimously) at Democratic County Conventions in Jefferson, Clallam, and San Juan Counties. Click on the county names to read the draft versions as submitted. The Clallam County resolution calls for the Navy to abandon its plans for an electronic warfare range over our communities and public lands; the Jefferson County resolution calls for a complete EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) on the electronic warfare range and a chance for authentic participation by the public, and the far more detailed resolution from San Juan County lays out a set of actions that must be taken in order to preserve public health and environmental and economic integrity. 

Does public opposition get results? Yes.
1.) The Army has withdrawn its request to use the North Cascades for combat helicopter landings due to public opposition. Senator Patty Murray helped on that one, so now it's time to ask for her help with the Navy encroachment.
2.)  The Forest Service has pushed back the permit for the mobile emitters on Olympic National Forest roads by 21 months, for the same reason. Latest news is the "objection period" for letters from the public will start in June, in preparation for their September decision announcement.
3.)  As of May 3, 2016, the Navy still hasn't signed its final Record of Decision on the ocean-based part of its activities described in its October 2015 EIS, called Northwest Training and Testing, because the Endangered Species Biological Opinion by the Fish and Wildlife Service is still not complete. The USFWS is keenly aware of public concerns, and this 7-month delay is unprecedented.
4.)  The Navy also pushed back their Draft EIS on Growler jets to autumn, for reasons that are unclear.
5.)  News media are picking up on military encroachment on public lands, waters and in skies over our communities, and on the ethical lapses leading to wrongdoing. Our media page is frequently updated with stories.

List of ways the public is getting results:
Presentations to various local commissions, health boards and Tribes: Several
Public presentations in various locations: at least 15
Social media sites: at least 8
Numbers of opposition groups formed: At least 20
Letters to editors of local papers: Too many to be counted
Written public comments to Forest Service: 4,000
Written public comments accepted by Forest Service: 3,300
Written public comments accepted by Navy for official record: 1054
Written and oral public comments not accepted by Navy: At least 1,000
Form letters of objection to Navy: 9,700
Petitions objecting to proposed Navy activities: At least 5
Numbers of petition signatures: At least 150,000.
County resolutions passed: at least 4 (including two in 24th Legislative District)
Number of news articles/op-eds in 2014: 5
     (including L.A. Times piece on this topic flying under the public radar)
Number of news articles/op-eds in March-April 2015: 38
Number of news articles/op-eds in March-April 2016: 59

Opposing unfair decisions by our government still works. All those letters to editors you've been writing, all the letters to politicians at national and local levels, all that sharing of posts on social media, plus comments on what few public documents we are allowed to comment on, and calls to officials when Navy jets fly too low, are helping to increase public momentum."