The U.S. Navy is proposing to construct and operate a new eight-bay aircraft maintenance facility at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island to support maintenance and repair requirements for the EA-18G Growler, an electronic warfare aircraft. The approximately 92,000 gross square-foot Regional Aircraft Service Facility (RASF) would provide space for high-bay aircraft maintenance, maintenance shops, and support spaces. 

Building the facility in the current proposed location would also harm known wetland habitat. Constructing the facility on the proposed site would involve filling, paving, and building on top of almost 3 acres of wetland containing Reed Canarygrass.

Comments can be submitted via email to navfac-nw-NEPA@us.navy.mil.

 For more information, contact Mike Welding at michael.t.welding.civ@us.navy.mil or 360-257-2962.

Read the assessment below and submit your comments by January 11, 2026.

The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard are jointly preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) / Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (OEIS) to assess potential environmental effects associated with the continuation of military readiness activities within the Northwest Training and Testing (NWTT) Study Area. According to the NWTT website, military readiness covers a broad range of activities, including "the use of active sonar, explosives, and other sources of sound."

Whidbey and Camano Islands are within the NWTT Inland Waters Study Area.

The Navy and Coast Guard are accepting substantive scoping comments from the public now through January 19, 2026.

The Draft Elements, Development Regulations, and SEPA documents for the Island County Comprehensive Plan were published on December 10, 2025, for a 60-day comment period, through February 9, 2026, at 4:30 p.m.

Comment now through February 9, 2026.

Legacy forests are a rare and rapidly disappearing fraction of forest lands managed by DNR in the Chehalis River watershed. Support a Moratorium on Logging of Legacy Forests in the Chehalis River Watershed by signing the petition below.

WEAN's Executive Director, Marnie Jackson, gives an overview of the current state of wetlands across the nation and asks our community to advocate for the protection of wetlands on the county level. Send a letter to our commissioners or give public comment, asking the county to hold violators accountable, specifically Parcel R32928-523-1940/Ewing Road, for filling a wetland. Watch the video for details on how to take action.

Center for Biological Diversity believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, the Center works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has saved irreplaceable wildlands, cleaned up the air we breathe, and fueled the rise of 100% clean energy. Earthjustice has protected countless species on the brink of extinction, and secured long-overdue, historic limits on our nation’s worst polluting industries. 

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