Washington State needs all Th'ers help--NOW!

[K Wills]

Washington State needs all Th'ers help--NOW!


If you remember, several years back many of the hobbyist in the US helped Washington State open their state parks to metal detecting by contacting those need in their government. In return, Washington State folks have helped other states to learn how to open their state parks as they did. This is what our hobby is all about--"Helping one another when needed!"
However, not every state park was opened to Washington State hobbyist, so the nice folks in Washington State have ask us ALL to support their new bill SB 5205 that will open all their state parks to our hobby by immediately filling up the email of one Senator on the Natural Resource Committee that has stopped their alike Bill's in the past, Sen. Ken Jacobsen. This Senator needs to know just how many want this Bill to be passed and for him to understand we are not a small special interest group that he should care little about. So we have acquired his direct email address that allows us not to go through his government email where you are required to show where you are located in the US. This way he does not know if you are in his district or not.
We pled with each and every one of you, take just a minute of your time, email Sen. Ken Jacobsen and ask him to vote "YES" for Bill SB 5205 at this email address: jacobsen.ken@leg.wa.gov Please do not put this off; remember someday those you help support today may be helping you in the future as well. Sincerely, Keith Wills

Thank you very much, Keith Wills

 

[Idaho-Marke]

These are the points I made in my e-mail. Be kind and thank him for his vote.

Hello sir,

One of the great benefits of metal detectors is that we are free metal trash collectors. All people who do this hobby have specific rules of conduct the metal detecting clubs encourage and one rule of conduct we all agree on is pick up metal trash. We do this out of self interest so the next person with a metal detector won't have to dig the trash so no policing is necessary.

An additional benefit of signing off on this bill that you may not be aware of is that clubs collect pop tops and can pulls from members that then go toward helping those in need.

Further, in addition to free trash collection, our hobby is low impact on the parks. We don't harvest anything, our hobby is not destructive, we cover our tracks and pack out what we pack in.

Therefore we ask your blessing and your yes vote on SB 5205.

Thank you so much.

Best wishes,

Mark Cook