[Tweeters] Wiley Slough Update

[Rob Faucett]

Unfortunately for us shrubs and trees destroy dike. The two are incompatible. 

Sad face. 

Best birding, 

rcf
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Rob Faucett
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Seattle, WA  98105


> On Mar 12, 2024, at 8:52 AM, Nancy Tom <birder1214 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

> Have you looked at GoPro?

> NTom

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> 

>> On Mar 12, 2024, at 8:22 AM, jimbetz at jimbetz.com wrote:

>> 

>> Hi,

>> 

>> The latest update in an email from WDFW is that Wiley won't reopen to

>> the public before "some time this fall".  This project has already been

>> slipped - more than once - and so I'm not too confident in that date.

>> Aggravating the completion date is that the contractor suspends all

>> work during the Winter ("can't work during bad weather").

>> 

>> My most recent pics of Wiley - taken from the road closure point -

>> show that they have removed essentially all of the trees and brush

>> along the dike ... that you can see from that point.  I don't know if

>> they have also removed trees and brush from the dike where it runs

>> out towards the river from the dike branch/flood  at the control gate.

>> 

>>                                                - Jim

>> 

>> *** email from WDFW ***

>> 

>> Hi Jim,

>> 

>> The site will not be open again until construction is completed, scheduled for some time this fall.

>> 

>> Best,

>> Jenny

>> 

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