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	<title>Bainbridge Shoreline Homeowners &#187; Best Available Science</title>
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		<title>Shoreline protection is honorable after all.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/shoreline-protection-is-honorable-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Insight With a Touch of Real Science
by Don Flora (a real scientist and Bainbridge shoreline homeowner) 
Six months ago I summarized “science” doctrine about bulkheads,  all of which declared bulkheads bad for the environment.  I asked, “Where is the research?” and “What are the numbers?”
Lo and behold,  I hadn’t noticed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2991&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partnership preparing for shoreline moratorium battle.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/partnership-preparing-for-shoreline-moratorium-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the Kitsap Sun, the Puget Sound Partnership is preparing several requests for the coming legislative session. One of them is a shoreline moratorium that would halt construction of bulkheads and docks in &#8220;sensitive areas&#8221; until new rules are approved.
Because of the importance of “feeder bluffs,” which create gravel beaches, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2958&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harm from nearshore development almost zero.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/harm-from-nearshore-development-almost-zero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Insight With a Touch of Real Science
by Don Flora (a real scientist and Bainbridge shoreline homeowner) 
Editor&#8217;s note: For the last dozen or so years, shoreline protection and restoration activists have worked feverishly to prove that Puget Sound has been “destroyed” by armoring and other human activities. As Dr. Flora has shown, their own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2797&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Best available science&#8221; and the law.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/best-available-science-and-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dennis D. Reynolds, Land Use Attorney, Bainbridge Island
At the request of the Common Sense Alliance (“CSA”), I comment on the State of Washington Department of Ecology (“Ecology”) and its best available science (BAS).  
Ecology has stated both in writing and orally to San Juan County officials and citizens that its compilation of science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2762&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No proof that bulkheads harm shoreline.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Ruggiero, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University
The shores of Puget Sound are rapidly being hardened and covered with artificial structures. While shoreline armoring often succeeds in protecting upland investments, shoreline armoring activities are hypothesized to represent a significant source of nearshore morphodynamic and marine habitat modification in Puget Sound.
Shoreline armoring is believed to affect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2600&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does science justify bulkhead rules?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/does-science-justify-bulkhead-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from an email to Puget Sound Shoreline Planners by Hugh Shipman, Coastal Geologist, WA Department of Ecology (emphasis added)
Shoreline armoring (seawalls, bulkheads, riprap) is one of the more challenging issues we all deal with on Puget Sound.  In May, a group of us (Ecology, WDFW, UW, Corps, USGS) organized a three-day workshop intended to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2488&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s getting pretty deep around here.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/its-getting-pretty-deep-around-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Longtime shoreline residents tell many interesting stories about their dealings with the COBI planning department and specifically the shoreline stewardship team. An interesting, recurring theme is that the possibility of sea level rise and flooding due to global warming argues against shoreline development. 
On March 28, 2009, Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph wrote&#8230; 
According [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1607&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is creosote harmful or sustainable?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/is-creosote-harmful-or-sustainable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article by Dr. Kenneth M. Brooks of Aquatic Environmental Sciences, Port Townsend&#8230; 
In a well educated and intelligent society, reality should be more important than perceptions.
Multitudes of people care about our environment and are committed to insuring that future generations enjoy the abundance and diversity of life that have graced this planet during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1598&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real science gets presidential backing.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/real-science-gets-presidential-backing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has entered the discussion about Puget Sound shoreline regulation in an interesting if tangential way. Let&#8217;s hope that the Puget Sound Partnership, Department of Ecology, and COBI planners were listening. Earlier today, he said&#8230;
From tiny embryonic cells to the large-scale physics of global warming, (Obama) urged researchers on Monday to follow science and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1475&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Puget Sound and the slippery slope.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/puget-sound-and-the-slippery-slope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental insight with a touch of real science&#8230;
by Don Flora, a real scientist and Bainbridge shoreline homeowner. 
A George Will column in February 15’s Kitsap Sun quotes Michel Eyquem de Montaigne’s axiom: ”Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.” 
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