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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>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>Do environmental activists ignore the science they claim to support?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/do-environmental-activists-ignore-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Todd Myers, Director, Washington Policy Center&#8217;s Center for the Environment, excerpted from his &#8220;Commentary on the Issues&#8221; &#8211; June 26, 2009
Recent wildfires are &#8230; cited as evidence of climate change. The National Wildlife Federation claimed that &#8220;Warmer temperatures are also to blame for the invasion of mountain pine beetles, which have already decimated over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2197&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How government destroyed science&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/how-government-destroyed-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Government Destroyed Science in  Columbia River Dam Decision Making
Remarks by James Buchal at the First Annual Northwest Water Law Symposium, Lewis &#38; Clark Law School, January 31, 2009 (edited)
Before I begin discussing the use of science in Columbia River decision making, I think it is important to have a definition of what science is, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=2154&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do docks impede passing salmon?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/do-docks-impede-passing-salmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our shoreline neighbor Dr. Don Flora offers his comments regarding the impact of residential docks on passing salmon. We offer a brief introduction and a link below…
There are studies showing that docks’ shadows affect the welfare of juvenile salmon headed toward the sea.  Wide docks (ships’ piers and ferry terminals) create sharp breaks between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1671&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don Flora&#8217;s comments on the value of lawns.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our shoreline neighbor Dr. Don Flora offers his comments regarding the value of lawns to Kitsap County&#8217;s shoreline residents. We offer a brief introduction and a link below…
Kitsap County’s charm flows partly from its lawns.  Grassed lawns have played an admirable environmental role.  Readers are reminded that, for other reasons too, lawns are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1660&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.” 
Kitsap County is about to follow other nearby places down the slippery slope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=1450&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don Flora&#8217;s comments on PSP&#8217;s Agenda</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/don-floras-comments-on-psp-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our shoreline neighbor Don Flora offers his comments regarding Puget Sound Partnership&#8217;s draft Action Agenda. We offer a brief introduction and a link below&#8230; 
Restoration, a key element of the Agenda, seems to have devolved into two kinds.  One is reshaping the margins of the Sound to appear as we think they were pre-settlement. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=947&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bulkhead harm more myth than science.</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/bulkhead-harm-more-myth-than-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I described my letter to the editor of the Bainbridge Review encouraging an islander to forgive herself for signing a petition in favor of a neighbor&#8217;s bulkhead application. 
A few days later, the Review printed a response by Deborah Rudnick, PhD, Senior Scientist for Integral Consulting Inc. on Mercer Island. Dr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=601&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the mayor&#8217;s dock harm salmon?</title>
		<link>http://bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/do-docks-harm-salmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Darlene Kordonowy has a home with a dock on Madison Bay. While her staff is working diligently  to keep shoreline homeowners from building or repairing their docks, she may be troubled with thoughts that hers is irreparably damaging salmon. A recent article by our island neighbor Don Flora may set her mind at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners.wordpress.com&blog=4336687&post=552&subd=bainbridgeshorelinehomeowners&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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