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If timber companies had to just once, come down and scoop up all their soil that is washed downstream and carry it back to their private property, that would put an end to irresponsible forestry. However it would also put an end to any forestry on sloping ground, which is the majority of all forests, thereby putting an end to the vast majority of all economic growth in WA.
I believe it would help to hold timber companies responsible for their practices. But I seriously doubt that it put an "end to the vast majority of all economic growth in WA." I used to work out in the woods, and forestry products are a fraction of the state's economy, compared to what they used to be.

Thurston County apparently banned development in floodplains years ago, yet Lewis County can't? And Lewis County claims that filling the floodplain won't raise flood levels? What idiocy. Neither the county, or developers or any one else should be able to get flood insurance in these flooded areas. THAT will stop future development from going where it shouldn't http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2007-12-09-lewis-flooding_N.htm