"The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is right to ask the state Department of Transportation to end excavation and construction work at the proposed graving dock there. The Hood Canal Bridge repair project is important and the investment lost at the Port Angeles site is massive. But the human and archaeological issues overshadow both.

Gov. Gary Locke said, "Had everyone known the magnitude of the archaeological significance when this was first proposed and when the testing for the site was done, nobody would have gone forward with it."

Well, now we know. And the work at that site should not go forward."

Get the Story:
Editorial: Avoid doing wrong again (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12/14)

Relevant Links:
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe - http://www.elwha.org

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