The Chevrolet marketing army swarmed the Keystone and Ebey’s Landing area Aug. 8 and 9 with all the fantasy clamor of boob tube advertising or adolescent computer games.

With the noisy helicopter, fast car, and all the accoutrements of a filming set, this alien force was permitted to violate Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve. This corporate commercial activity impacted the wildlife of the bird sanctuary, interfered with ferry traffic, screwed up fishing access during the historically popular humpy run, and certainly had many turning in their graves in the Sunnyside Cemetery.

Is the Reserve is for sale to any commercial activity for the “right” donation? The county and state permission was inappropriate and completely insensitive to this special community.

DuWayne Morgenstern

Coupeville