Evergreen emeritus professors Oscar Soule and Kaye V. Ladd published their scientific analysis showing that dredging Capitol Lake and cleaning the Deschutes watershed will be more environmentally beneficial than destroying the campus design by taking out the Fifth Avenue dam and further polluting Budd Inlet.
In addition, professional engineers Bob Holman and Don Melnick reported their findings that show that it is much less expensive to dredge Capitol Lake than removing the dam and dredging Budd Inlet. (See savecapitollake.org/)
Thanks are also due former governors Al Rosellini, Dan Evans and Booth Gardner and former Secretary of State Ralph Munro who obtained a favorable ruling from the Olympia Hearings Examiner which will prevent the construction of more high-rise buildings in the view corridor from the north campus across the lake to the borrowed landscapes of Puget Sound and the Olympics and will also lead to the deconstruction of the derelict Capitol Center Building. (See olycapitolparkfoundation. org/)
We all hold the nationally significant Capitol Campus in trust for future generations to ensure it will remain the world’s most beautiful for the next 100 years.
