PORT ANGELES — Josey Paul couldn’t help but feel outnumbered. Of the 18 men attending Monday’s work session of Clallam County commissioners, he was the only one to speak strongly against locating a shooting range near Sadie Creek.
“I wish there were more of me and fewer of them,” he joked after the meeting.
But it was as shooting range proponent Don Roberts had predicted in a March 11 report in Peninsula Daily News:
Paul’s was the lone voice arguing that the range shouldn’t be built.
Commissioners will confirm today what they decided informally Monday: to start the process requesting the state Department of Natural Resources to reconvey 320 acres of land drained by Sadie Creek for a proposed rifle range.
Specifically, they will resolve to accept the property, pay $5,000 of DNR’s administrative costs for the process and survey the land.
DNR will reserve mineral rights and timber from the site, and the Board of Natural Resources must approve the reconveyance.
