09/27/2024

Bottom line, "Sterling Bar", in a perfect world would be just what Mr. Sterling thought it could be.....truth is "its not a perfect world" and there is a element of society that just doesn't understand "no", they don't like rules that restrict what they want to do.

I live about 4 miles from this area, down the old hiway, left into the river bar. More than 50 years I've live in my present home. I've driven into this area, to launch a small jet boat, park a drift boat trailer, to just winter steelhead, and yes after summer run steelhead got planted in the Wynoochee in the late 70's, I fish the lower river 1000's of days.

When the Port took over the property they put some general rules, "no camping overnight, stay on the main roads, no fires(certain times of the year), pick up your trash when you leave. The Port did what they could do, did grade the main road in, had someone pickup trash, even put a large garbage container in the area, big signs with the rules of use for the area........still, trees got cut, fires built, party, party, drinking, big wheeled trucks, went off road and ripped up the environment.

There was no charge to use this area.....just dollars going to fix problems....so we are where we are because too many problems.....shooting, person died, so hence "gated off"......river access lost!!!!!