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		<title>Port Townsend. Unusually Quiet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ December 12, 2007
Hull corrosion across the class of all 4 Steel Electric car ferries in recent examinations resulted in an unknown extension of the time that the Olympic Peninsula at Port Townsend and Whidbey Island at Keystone car ferry runs will be suspended. While emergency options are being examined, estimates of the time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New portal site - Olympic Peninsula Environmental News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Hi folks. Check out the new Olympic Peninsula Environmental News &#8220;gateway&#8221; website that I&#8217;ve put together at olyopen.net. Goal for this site was to create a central location where you could find all the news, events, legislation, opinion, etc. from all governmental, non-governmental, and miscellaneous sites that relate to environmental protection of the Peninsula, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military exempt of endangered orcas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ from Endangered Orcas Focus of Proposal; Government Offers Recovery Plan for Puget Sound Group, Associated Press
Federal agencies must now consult with the fisheries service to make sure their actions will not harm the whales&#8217; habitat. Eighteen military sites covering nearly 112 square miles of orca habitat have been excluded from the critical habitat area. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/military-exempt-of-endangered-orcas/73</link>
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		<title>&#8220;In fact, Puget Sound is sick&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ from Gregoire takes first swipe at huge Sound cleanup, by Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times, 14 dec 06
&#8220;&#8230; in releasing a $220 million, two-year proposal for cleaning up the Sound, Gregoire made a cautious step toward what she has said is a top initiative in her administration. It&#8217;s a plan calculated to build momentum for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/in-fact-puget-sound-is-sick/72</link>
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		<title>Puget Sound, Hood Canal rescue plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Due to deterioration of water quality and marine habitat, and the general environment, Puget Sound Partnership has been created, a Washington state panel for developing a plan to restore the health of Puget Sound by 2020.
Excerpts from People have got to stand up by Richard Walker, Indian Country Today, December 04, 2006:
Today, Puget Sound&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/puget-sound-hood-canal-rescue-plans/71</link>
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		<title>Showdown at Hood Canal Bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Scientists are expanding their view of the reasons for marine creatures and plants dying off in the Hood Canal fjord, but an extensive article in the Seattle Times which refers to the need for flushing currents doesn’t mention the blockage at the most active point of water circulation, near the surface, where the pontoons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>200% increase for Puget Sound cleanup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ $6 million for Sound cleanup
from article by Les Blumenthal, The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA, May 5th, 2006 01:00 AM
A major spending bill approved by a House committee Thursday would boost funding for a Puget Sound cleanup project to $6 million.
The Interior appropriations bill also provides money for Mount Rainier National Park, salmon restoration and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/increase-for-puget-sound-cleanup/62</link>
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		<title>Cutter Alert, destination Port Townsend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Captain seeks home port for old cutter
from article by Drew Atkins, Worldlink, Wednesday, April 5, 2006
&#8230; the Alert, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter and the oldest engine-powered ex-U.S. warship still operational.
This trip from San Francisco to Oregon is the farthest the ship had traveled in over a decade. Stone said the vessel, once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/cutter-alert-destination-port-townsend/48</link>
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		<title>Will the Kalakala move?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
  The Kalakala - Seattle February 2004
  
  Originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Steve Rodrigues, owner-operator, has posted emails to preservation groups according to press (KOMO - KIRO) indicating a desire to move the long retired Kalakala ferry from Tacoma to the Colman dock in Seattle.
Within 3 years.
Flickr photos tagged with Kalakala [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://olyoo.com/will-the-kalakala-move/46</link>
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		<title>Spooky Ruby</title>
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  spooky
  
  Originally uploaded by sublium.

Spooky, in the eye of the beholder. The waters off Ruby Beach are now National Marine Sanctuary territory, and off limits to the many large merchant ships traversing the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
In addition to modern navigation methods, this protection from shipping traffic [...]]]></description>
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