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Coastal management and restoration of our planet's coastlines with a particular focus on California, Louisiana and the Pacific.  Emphasizing wetland restoration, aspects of agriculture in the coastal plain, fisheries, dealing with coastal hazards, and effective governance.
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Let's talk about Bigfoot erotica

Let's talk about Bigfoot erotica | Coastal Restoration | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - July 31, 2018 4:43 PM
As long as Bigfoot’s on the brain, we might as well think seriously about how he, and the rest of us, got here.
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Really?!?  Now even cryptozoology is getting tainted by porn and by politicians?!?  

I can see the whole merging of the latter two (both increasingly seen as peopled by strange and/or not-quite-the neighbors-you'd-like-to-have folks), but to taint the honest to goodness monster enthusiast can only mean one thing: the end of the American Enterprise.  No other way to read this.
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An Even-Weirder-Than-Usual Tardigrade Just Turned Up in a Parking Lot

An Even-Weirder-Than-Usual Tardigrade Just Turned Up in a Parking Lot | Coastal Restoration | Scoop.it
From www.livescience.com - March 7, 2018 12:00 PM
The world's newest species of water bear has eight legs and eggs covered with tentacles. And it was discovered in a parking lot.
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Scientists have identified the 50-foot creature that washed up on an Indonesian beach

Scientists have identified the 50-foot creature that washed up on an Indonesian beach | Coastal Restoration | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - May 22, 2018 11:38 PM
It's still terrifying.
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Fake News Story Makes the Social Media Rounds: Giant, Mutated Squid Supposedly Washed Up In SoCal

Fake News Story Makes the Social Media Rounds: Giant, Mutated Squid Supposedly Washed Up In SoCal | Coastal Restoration | Scoop.it
From www.lightlybraisedturnip.com - January 10, 2014 1:19 AM

File this one in "we've lost our ability to detect baloney" file.


By the end of the day today, links and excerpts referencing this article were being widely circulated via social media.  Apparently we have lots of gullable folks out there.


The article was a satirical piece (follow-up to an earlier fictional story item about a giant oarfish supposedly discovered off the California coast: http://www.lightlybraisedturnip.com/giant-fish-found-in-california/) spoofing recent alarmist reports about dangerous radioactivity reaching the U.S. from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The awesomly doctored photo was an altered version of a picture depicting a dead whale found in Chile back in 2011 (http://www.4thmedia.org/2011/11/04/whale-found-dead-in-chile/).

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I love me some cryptozology as much as the next marine biologist.  But having just drive one of my PCH transects through Malibu, I must report no such massive cephalopods in the greater Santa Monica Bay area.

 

But I love the picture!

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