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	<title>Olympic Peninsula Environmental News</title>
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	<description>Environmental News from the Olympic Peninsula Washington State</description>
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		<title>NASA posts 131 years of global warming in 26 seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends at NASA comes this amazing 26-second video, depicting how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1880. That year is what scientists call the beginning of the “modern record.” http://www.climatecentral.org/videos/web_features/nasa-finds-2011-ninth-warmest-year-on-record/ Filed under: Puget Sound<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2301&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High tides threaten coast. Caution advised today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to 20ft. high waves hit yesterday, might again today. Westport was experiencing pretty high water, apparently. Forecasters say they threaten severe erosion of the jetty protecting La Push and the lower Quileute tribal village during high tide around noon Monday. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/01/23/2362433/big-waves-high-tides-on-washington.html Support local journalism, subscribe to the Bellingham Herald Filed under: Puget Sound<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2299&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empire of Dirt Gives Way to the Return of the Salmon&#8211;KCTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elwha Love: Katie Campbell and Ashley Ahearn update the progress being made in Elwha restoration. http://earthfix.kcts9.org/water/article/checking-in-on-the-elwha/ Filed under: Puget Sound Tagged: Elwha, elwha dam<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2297&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday 1/21! Short films to support the Jefferson County Marine Resource Committee!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<title>Good overview on wild salmon vs farmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have friends who may not understand the subtleties of the differences between wild and farmed salmon, this is a good, consumer overview of the subject, hosted by a registered dietitian (Melinda Hemmelgarn) and a life long NW salmon fisherwoman( Anne Mosness) who is also , former Food and Society Policy Fellow. http://kopn.org/aasp?u=http://kopn.org/a/showrss4.php?n=http://kopn.org/dc/dircaster2.php?p=fs or: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2287&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More  on Tsunami debris..-KCTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we continue to track the likely incoming flotsam from the disaster in Japan. From his pile of debris Anderson drags out a round black float. It’s about 3-and-a-half feet long. He’s found 6 others like it and believes they’re from a Japanese oyster farm in the area where the tsunami hit last year. These [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2285&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA The Red-Headed Step Child Among Gov. Agencies? Not Really&#8211;KCTS</title>
		<link>http://olyopen.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/noaa-the-red-headed-step-child-among-gov-agencies-not-reallykcts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anytime I hear the words “consolidate” government functions, I cringe. Here’s a more optimistic view on the proposed NOAA ‘consolidation”. – Alf The Obama Administration proposes to streamline the Commerce Department by consolidating trade and business agencies and moving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Department of the Interior. Ashley Ahearn of EarthFix [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2283&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EPA fines Navy for problem in monitoring underground fuel tanks&#8211;Kitsap Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another reason that we need the EPA. Who would monitor the military to protect us against these kinds of environmental degradation? While the EPA seems to be the whipping boy of some of the politicians running for President, when we see news like this, I’m glad they are there. –editor The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2281&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution Free Prosperity: Is It Possible in an Economy that looks like this?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martha Baskin of Green Acre Radio reports on whether the environmental community’s top priorities for the 2012 legislative session can be sustained under the most intense attacks the community has seen in decades remains to be seen. http://greenacreradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-12-2012-pollution-free.html Filed under: Puget Sound<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2278&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Glaciers vanishing quickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that our water supplies come from these glaciers, it may be worth paying attention to this! OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The glaciers in the North Olympic Peninsula&#8217;s national park have shrunk by an average of 15 percent of their mass since the 1980s. “One glacier has completely disappeared,” Bill Baccus, Olympic National Park physical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2275&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few answers regarding sea level rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Dunagan of the Kitsap Sun did some digging to come up with a response to a reader who was not convinced of the problems of global warming. Because of the holidays, I did not get an immediate response from several climate experts I contacted following Nels Sultan’s comments about sea level rise in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2272&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land Based Fish Farming in Tanks  Gets Boost in B.C.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fish farm proposal gets $800,000 boost from federal government A unique fish farm proposal, designed to grow commercial volumes of salmon in tanks on land, was given an $800,000 government boost Monday. &#34;The industry is developing new technologies that will make our country a world leader in aquaculture and create jobs and opportunities here at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2270&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Club Presentation 1/26 in PA</title>
		<link>http://olyopen.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/sierra-club-presentation-126-in-pa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should be interesting! Highly recommended. Anne’s email is anne.shaffer@coastalwatershedinstitute.org Filed under: Puget Sound<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2260&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NW states released more toxics in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as we think we are making some progress, the facts intrude. From the federal toxics inventory report: The three Northwest states had seen declines in toxic releases before 2010. But that year, the releases started to climb. Washington released 27 percent more than in 2009. NW states released more toxics in 2010 http://kplu.org/post/nw-states-released-more-toxics-2010 Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2256&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Billie Frank Jr. on State Wildlife Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission chair Billy Frank Jr. argues that Governor Gregoire’s proposal for a one-time tranfer of 1.5 million from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife&#8217;s wildlife fund to protect salmon production at several hatcheries makes sense because hatcheries provide salmon for tribal, commercial and sport fisheries. Salmon are for everyone http://www.auburn-reporter.com/opinion/136619728.html Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2249&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington receives lion&#8217;s share of federal wetland grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with the demise of the earmark, which helped us greatly out here, our state has done very well in obtaining grants for wetland conservation. As the article states, that is because we have cut back less at the state level for these projects, which in turn has allowed the federal grants to continue. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2242&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the recent &#8216;Shellfish Initiative&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Governor Gregoire, along with representatives of the Feds, State and the Shellfish Industry met to unveil a new initiative with the goal of ‘streamlining permitting’ of the industry, and also to throw some small but valued dollars at other issues around the Sound, such as the Olympia Oysters and Abalone revitalization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2235&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What may be a major environmental case goes to the Supremes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fill in a wetland without a permit, face a fine from the EPA. Go to court and have the Supreme Court hear your case to consider how and when you can challenge the kind of order EPA issues to stop and restore the damage. There is way more to this than meets the eye, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2233&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the seabirds gone? One clue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us who live near the beach or spend a lot of time on it, are aware, even anecdotally, that seabird numbers seem to have dropped dramatically over the last decade or so. There are a lot of reasons this is happening, from small things like dogs allowing to roam the beach daily on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2231&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steelhead closure ahead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alf hanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Saturday will discuss and decide on whether to close fishing early for steelhead and other game fish in several river systems in Puget Sound and along the Strait of Juan de Fuca to protect wild steelhead. Commission takes input on proposed fishing rule changes http://www.theolympian.com/2012/01/01/1932095/commission-takes-input-on-proposed.html Filed under: Puget Sound<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=olyopen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6664244&amp;post=2228&amp;subd=olyopen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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