JOYCE — Gun range supporters hope an environmentalist’s opposition to their third proposed Clallam County shooting park site along Sadie Creek won’t be the proposal’s last chance.
In 1997 and 1998, Pacific Northwest Shooting Park Association members failed to establish ranges at two other locations southwest of Sequim.
Since then the association has continued to seek a world-class public range for firearms, archery, horseback riding and four-wheel driving — on a site acceptable to the public.
While Blue Mountain- and Cassidy Creek-area neighbors in the late 1990s feared noise, flying bullets and property value losses, the complaint today is not one of location.
It is the issue of lead from spent ammunition.
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The rest of the story appears in the Thursday Peninsula Daily News.