As industrial agriculture degrades soil quality and challenges our country's future food security, the need for innovative thinkers well-versed in sustainable agriculture is greater than ever. The Outback Farm/OELS has provided a practical-application site for thousands of students since its offical foundation in 1969, and its existence could not be more crucial. It provides a site for expereiential education to WWU students as well as hundreds of Bellingham children who attend camps and classes there every year. Infringing upon this space would be a detriment to not only the WWU community, but to the greater Bellingham community as a whole. Furthermore, robbing potential agricultural game-changers the chance to learn how to improve modern agriculture would be a detriment to the current food status of this country. Please consider a different site.
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Paul Kearsley
10 years ago
Please Honor the +40 years of Outdoor Education that the Outback provides.
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Evan A Bossert
10 years ago
There is more than enough room for a large building in the adjacent parking lot. Just put in an elevated parking structure. Please Stop!!! removing perfectly good carbon sequestration in the form of mature trees (i.e. The slaughter that occurred across the street for the soccer field) Also, the amount of fuel you would save by not trucking out that whole hillside is tremendous! But Western is interested in sustainability, right?!!!?
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Serena Auriemma
10 years ago
Don't do it, we need this for education on an important piece of land we've cultivated and put many hours into!
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Amelia McDowell
10 years ago
The Outback Farm is an extraordinary learning space that adds to the value of Western. If we diminish the health and expansion of this land, we are diminishing future educational opportunities for Western students, and valued space of Bellingham's community.
As industrial agriculture degrades soil quality and challenges our country's future food security, the need for innovative thinkers well-versed in sustainable agriculture is greater than ever. The Outback Farm/OELS has provided a practical-application site for thousands of students since its offical foundation in 1969, and its existence could not be more crucial. It provides a site for expereiential education to WWU students as well as hundreds of Bellingham children who attend camps and classes there every year. Infringing upon this space would be a detriment to not only the WWU community, but to the greater Bellingham community as a whole. Furthermore, robbing potential agricultural game-changers the chance to learn how to improve modern agriculture would be a detriment to the current food status of this country. Please consider a different site.
Please Honor the +40 years of Outdoor Education that the Outback provides.
There is more than enough room for a large building in the adjacent parking lot. Just put in an elevated parking structure. Please Stop!!! removing perfectly good carbon sequestration in the form of mature trees (i.e. The slaughter that occurred across the street for the soccer field) Also, the amount of fuel you would save by not trucking out that whole hillside is tremendous! But Western is interested in sustainability, right?!!!?
Don't do it, we need this for education on an important piece of land we've cultivated and put many hours into!
The Outback Farm is an extraordinary learning space that adds to the value of Western. If we diminish the health and expansion of this land, we are diminishing future educational opportunities for Western students, and valued space of Bellingham's community.