DUNGENESS – Leave it alone for the locals. Most persons commenting at a meeting this week on plans for the Dungeness Recreation Area want it kept mostly as it is.
They told Clallam County Parks officials at a public outreach meeting in the Clallam County Courthouse on Wednesday night not to choose options that would make the 222-acre park and wildlife refuge a “regional park.”
Especially, they said, they didn’t want more campsites for recreational vehicles.
Instead, they want more accommodations for bicyclists and hikers.
As for hunters – who shoot pheasant planted on farmland in the area – well, they could take a hike.
The park, shared by a federal wildlife refuge, crowns the bluffs above the Strait of Juan de Fuca between Port Angeles and Sequim.
About two-dozen persons, many of them neighbors of the park, attended the meeting.
