Tattoos for land preservation

Published 4:37 pm Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Hundreds of Washington residents got tattoos last week in support of the San Juan Islands National Monument.

On a trip to the San Juans in August, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell stated she had done everything but “get a tattoo” for the monument. So last week, in celebration of National Public Lands Day on Sept. 29, Environment Washington distributed hundreds of temporary tattoos across the state so that Washingtonians could “join Sen. Cantwell in urging the President to protect nearly 1,000 acres of federally-owned Bureau of Land Management Lands in the San Juans as a National Monument.”

The proposed San Juan Islands National Monument would protect close to 1,000 acres of historic and pristine lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management from development.