Carrol, With respect to item #1, the P G development (National Harbor), the impact will undoubtably be felt in reduced migrating and wintering ducks and eagles on and near the Potomac River adjacent to the proposed development, and will likely impact the resident, breeding, and migrating bird population at Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve, just across the river and may impact breeding attempts by Bald Eagles on the Maryland side near the proposed development. Its very sad and, I believe, very short-sighted. It grieves me that the laws designed to protect the environment we live in as well as the natural beauty of the Potomac River in the DC area were so easily circumvented by the very body which created the Dyke Marsh Preserve in the first place, the Congress. Kurt Gaskill Director, Friends of Dyke Marsh From: arielamc@worldnet.att.net (Carrol Cowan) Sender: owner-mdosprey@ARI.Net Reply-to: mdosprey@ARI.Net To: MDOsprey@ARI.Net (osprey) Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding two articles in the Washington Post this weekend: 1) Saturday Metro section, "PR George's Project Wins Exemption," and 2) Sunday Metro, "A Conservation Compromise"?