The Port of Tacoma has bought 745 acres of land just south of Olympia to turn into a huge “logistics center” (South Sound Logistics Center). Preliminary information shows that this would involve a complete transformation of this whole area, with thousands more trucks clogging our freeways and small country roads each day, hundreds of trains blocking access roads, a possible solid waste transfer facility, a possible chemical manufacturing center, and so on. The project represents an assault on what remains of rural Thurston County, and a major threat to the regional treasure that is Millersylvania State Park with its 500,000 annual visitors.

A citizen has filed for a rezone of the involved area to make it more difficult to use this land so inappropriately. Please join our efforts to protect Thurston County’s resources and rural character by adding your name to the list of supporters of the proposed rezone (see attached). The list will be presented to the county as an addendum to the rezone filing.

For more information, please visit our website:

www.FriendsOfRockyPrairie.com

E-mail us at FORPrairie@hotmail.com Call Sharron at (360) 866-7596

Attached is a PDF of the petition. Please print it off get your friends and family to sign and mail back to Sharron. Lets keep Thurston Co. a beautiful place.