• A Critical Area is private property that is important to save because of its ecological importance.
• A Buffer is not a Critical Area. A Buffer is private property that the landowner can no longer use or manage that happens to be next to a Critical Area.
• Buffers are typically "no-touch" so that they cannot have any human maintenance.
• Blackberry and other noxious weeds love buffers.
• Gang Green thinks that buffers are the neatest thing since socialism.
• Gang Green thinks that socialism is the neatest thing since sliced bread because it treats everyone equally.

Do you think the buffers shown below treat all the landowners equally?

		This is May Creek in King County. The buffer here is 300 feet on each side of the creek and starts at the end of the wetland that runs alonside the creek.
			This is Kelsey Creek which is the best salmon stream in Bellevue. One can only guess how many inches wide the buffer is here!
				This is Honey Creek in Renton. There really is a salmon bearing creek under Albertson's parking lot! It is a tributary of May Creek.