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Mr. Ed Styskel is a professional Wildlife Biologist. He submitted the following letter to the County Community Development Department on March 30, 2022. He will be speaking at the Protect Pend Oreille public meeting this Tuesday May 3 at 7 PM at the American Legion Hall in Cusick. I am college trained and now retired after working 40+ years as a Certified Wildlife Biologist with the USDA Forest Service and in private natural resource consulting. In my working career, I surveyed and wrote management recommendations for endangered, threatened, and sensitive species of vertebrate animals and plants. I also helped prepare NEPA Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements. Those experiences taught me how to find and interpret relevant scientific literature about subjects outside of my primary expertise. The SEPA Checklist, as submitted for the Ponderay Cryptomining Facility, is inadequate because it ignores or understates effects to the environmental elements of Animals, Environmental Health, and Aesthetics. The County must not consider CUP approval until these concerns have been answered and the public has a second opportunity to comment on them. Specific deficiencies are described as follows. To read the rest of Mr. Styskel's letter, download the PDF file below. 
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