BRINNON — With support mounting to save Pulali Point, a group of neighbors is poised to take steps to prevent the regional Boys Scouts council from clear-cutting much of the point.
“We will seek every legal option to stop our homes and investments and lives from being destroyed, and to protect this pristine environment,” said Kerie Pedersen, who grew up on the point with her father and mother, John and Marilyn Pedersen.
Kerie Pedersen said Sunday that the “Save Pulali Point” Web site at www.savepulali.org is receiving increasing traffic, e-mail messages from supporters statewide. Pedersen has also received a number of phone calls from individuals representing larger groups in support of saving Pulali.
Pedersen is part of the Pulali Landowners Association, a group of neighbors who built their homes on Pulali Point because, as the Web site states, “we revere the sacred beauty of the area.”
The association, besides landowners, also has support from former Boy Scouts and parents from “all over the state,” Pederson said.
The Boy Scouts’ Chief Seattle Council proposes clear-cutting up to 75 percent of about 80 acres and thinning the remaining acreage. The logging operation would take place near the council’s Camp Parsons.
Logging could start in a month, unless the association delays it.
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