Welcoming Vista project gets a boost from the Washington Conservation Corps

BY PEPPER FISHER

Port Angeles – The effort to improve and highlight the view of Port Angeles Harbor from the Front Street hill where it drops down to the Waterfront District is making some major headway this week, thanks to the efforts of the Washington Conservation Corps (WCC).

The Waterfront District has hired the WCC to do the difficult and even dangerous rappel work on the bluff that the City’s volunteers cannot do at their regular work parties.

This work is part of a ten-year plan to restore what’s now being called the Welcoming Vista. It’s painstaking work that involves removing invasive species in stages while also stabilizing the bluff by planting more appropriate species along the way.

The project is being steered by Lissy Moriarty, a Landscape Architect who owns the local com