To: The Oregon State House, The Oregon State Senate, and Governor Kate Brown
Save West Hayden Island
We the undersigned advocate for the preservation of West Hayden Island as a state park, to be preserved as a natural area, to give people access to nature, and to protect the wildlife that depend on it. West Hayden is home to deer, eagles, owls, cranes, numerous other forms of birds, animals, plants, trees, and wildlife. W. Hayden Is. provides a resting place for migratory birds; it is in the flight path of migratory birds. And West Hayden Island has historic significances as the site of Donation Land Claims and to Native Americans. Protecting W. Hayden Is. as a natural area will also protect migrating salmon from industrial waist.
Why is this important?
We Advocate for the preservation of West Hayden Island, as a state park to give people access to nature and preserve wildlife. Port of Portland wants the city of Portland to annex W. Hayden Is. so that the Port can turn W. Hayden Is. into a parking lot and industrial area. The Port already has sites that are unused. Audubon, Sierra Club, Oregon and Washington Indian Tribes and Metro residents have voiced opposition to development of this site, one of the last remaining, highly diverse natural areas on the Columbia River in the Portland, Oregon Metro Area.