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Published: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 12:01 a.m.
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A legacy that will lastforeverSaturday's ribboncutting ceremony to mark Mukilteo's February
acquisition of Japanese Gulch was a longtime coming. It's also a big deal,
illustrative of the power of collaboration and a bestpractices M.O., which
other communities should try to emulate.
The city of Mukilteo's purchase of the 98acre property was the
culmination of a long, grassroots campaign to save the area and, by
extension, enshrine the narrative of turnofthecentury Japanese
immigrants. Japanese families lived at the gulch from 1903 until 1930,
when the Great Depression swept away local timber jobs.
“Mukilteo was a small town and the Mukilteo Lumber Company needed
workers in order to keep the mill running. The Japanese workers were
needed,” Historian Margaret Riddle writes in a 2007 HistoryLink essay.
“Mukilteo residents began visiting and accepting their Japanese
neighbors. They taught them to speak English and how to play the piano.
In return, the Japanese loyally bought local goods and sent their children
to Rose Hill School.”
In 2000, descendants of several of the original Japanese families came
together to unveil a bronze sculpture of an origami crane by artist Darryl
Smith. The monument, emblematic of racial peace, was the work of the
Mukilteo Historical Society and Masaru Odoi, who was born in Japanese
Gulch in 1921.
Here is a place with historical resonance and conservation values: Mature
forests and wetlands, home to blue herons and bald eagles, cut by two
miles of Japanese Gulch Creek, habitat for coho salmon.
The property, owned by Metropolitan Creditors Trust of Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho, was zoned light industrial. It stitches a landscape loved by
mountain bikers and
outdoor enthusiasts.
The challenge was
cobbling the money,
potentially $6 million
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or more.
What began with a
handful of neighbors
and history buffs soon
found political
expression. A 2012
propertytax measure
received 58 percent of
the vote, two
percentage points shy
of the supermajority
required. But intense negotiations behind the scenes with the seller,
bolstered by a $2.5 million grant from the Snohomish County
Conservation Futures fund, made the difference. The patchwork of
funding includes $1 million from the state, an earlier $1 million from the
county, and $900,000 from the city's realestate excise tax and park
acquisition funds.
Forterra, the land conservation group, Mayor Jennifer Gregerson, and
the board of the Japanese Gulch Group, which includes former Mayor Joe
Marine, former Sen. Paull Shin, Sen. Marko Liias and Snohomish County
Councilman Brian Sullivan and former Councilmember John Koster,
deserve special credit. But so do the grassroots volunteers.
To paraphrase Edward Abbey, wild places such as Japanese Gulch need no
defense, they only need defenders.
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I have supported/followed this from the very beginning. Avictory for all things right and good. We take our victorieswhen we can. Loses/defeats only are victorious if we don'ttake lessons learned. If we learn and grow smarter, stronger,better, more dedicated than everwe will always win nomatter the circumstance. "Wild Places such as JapaneseGulch need NO defense, they ONLY need defenders."
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