Editor,

Whidbey Camano Land Trust Executive Director Patricia Powell’s letter to the editor regarding Bos/Swan Lake, also know as Swantown Lake, located off West Beach Road, is apparently a piece of purposely misleading revisionist history.

Ms. Powell claimed, “The Whidbey Camano Land Trust has no association with the Swan Lake Preservation Group. We have never taken a position on, or been involved in, any activities concerning Swan Lake.”

In reality, a web page on the Land Trust’s own website titled “Swantown” states: “The Swantown Priority Area…includes … freshwater…draining into Swantown Lake. The Swantown property was protected by the Land Trust in 2009 (is owned by Island County), and located within the Swantown Priority Area.”

This page is at http://www.wclt.org/priorityareas/swantown/ and is part of a larger website page titled “Projects by Priority Area” at http://www.wclt.org/map-test/.

Additionally, the Land Trust is the sponsor of proposed actions delineated in a document posted at the Swan Lake Preservation Group website titled “2015 Island County Conservation Futures Fund Fakkema Farm Conservation Easement Acquisition.” That document states, “The Fakkema Farm…is extremely important for the protection of both surface and groundwater resources. The property serves to slow runoff…before it enters Swan Lake…”

So, despite Ms. Powell’s adamant claims, Whidbey Camano Land Trust has clearly taken positions on, and been involved in, multiple activities concerning Bos/Swan/Swantown Lake.

Apparently their agenda is so closely aligned with Swan Lake Preservation Group that Angie Homola simply piggybacks upon them, and vice versa.

As is said, “Birds of a feather flock together.”

William Burnett

Oak Harbor