Puget Sound in declining health

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I know some of you SI posters will think this is "progress". :D That's why you're on my "ignore" list. :D

No one's sure exactly when Puget Sound joined the list of the nation's troubled waters. A pretty face hides a lot.


"The amazing thing is you look out and it's beautiful," says Sue Joerger, head of Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, an environmental group that monitors one of the USA's largest estuaries. "There's mountains, trees, sparkling water. Unless you get below the surface, it's hard to know what's going on."

What's going on out of view of whale-watching, island-kayaking, waterfront-strolling tourists is a steady decline due to the pressures of urban development and pollution that's outpacing cleanup..................."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...50511/ts_usatoday/pugetsoundindeclininghealth
 
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