Comment: Good article.  In Homer this week, we are defending the headwaters of Tutka Bay from a couple of ADF&G biologists who have totally ignored public input.  Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association is operating out of Tutka Lagoon, under a 1970's permit, with very little water sampling and no Federal or State water quality permit.  CIAA proposed moving the net pens to deeper water favored by most of the community.  The local ADF&G biologists, in callous disregard for all non-consumptive park users, forced the headwaters location.  Unbelievable.  
In Alaska, bearing the brunt of global warming, both Senators  Koch Murkowski and Ohio Koch Sullivan just voted to roll back methane emissions for oil and gas wells.  Not a mention in the BP fueled local paper.  How can two senators from the arctic deny climate change and stand behind Rex (Exxon)Tillerson?   How could Alaska pump $10Billion annually in oil and pay the oil companies?  Because every politician is a whore for an oil company handout.