research and teaching deals with issues in animal and environmental ethics, the ethics of climate change, and political philosophy. Current topics are the moral status of animals and other natural entities, with a particular focus on fish and insects, the ethics of animal domestication, animal (dis)enhancement, and deliberative democracy. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She received her master's title at the University of Amsterdam. Her homepage is: bernicebovenkerk.com.
the description — with final approval by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Platting Committee.

That committee had been scheduled to consider the Quiet Creek preliminary plat at its Feb. 10 meeting. Neal had asked for consideration to be postponed.

“We just asked to put it off for us for two weeks until the next meeting so we could meet with the (borough) planner to clear up any discrepancies,” Neal said.

The Quiet Creek subdivision has been strongly opposed by some neighbors in the area. Opponents have questioned the effect of the subdivision on wetlands, runoff and storm water drainage patterns. At the Jan. 15, on a motion from commissioner Larry Slone to reconsider, the planning commission voted down that motion and its decision stood.

Two opponents of Quiet Creek who live in the