I take issue with King County Councilman Larry Phillips’ guest

editorial in the May 25 issue of the Record.

Phillips assumes that people who voted to buy the Three Forks

Natural Area did so because they all want to use it. I live close by in Fall

City, I voted for the purchase, and I will probably never use the park.

By voting for the purchase, I chose to use my tax dollars simply to

preserve the area for wildlife and as open space.

My vote, and I’m sure that of many others, assures me that under

the county’s ownership the land will be protected from Weyerhaeuser,

Quadrant and other big developers who would gladly turn it into

another Snoqualmie Ridge or propose other developments such as Treemont,

a project neighboring residents are fighting to prevent the erosion of

their properties and adversely impacting Patterson Creek, the resident

wildlife and our rural roads.

Contrary to Phillips’ opinion, I was delighted to read the Three Forks

park had been scaled back, not because I want to keep people from

Seattle or elsewhere from using the park, but because I believe the less we do to

a natural area, the better.

Sharon Parshall

Fall City