While not directly related to the Peninsula, this article is about a process that does affect us, our ability, or lack of ability, to restore wetlands. Part and parcel to “no net loss” in the CAO and SMP processes.
Make up your own mind about ‘wetlands banking’ after reading Ashley Ahearn’ EarthFix piece on “Banking On New Wetlands When Old Ones Vanish” http://earthfix.kcts9.org/land/article/banking-on-wetlands/
“The Washington Department of Ecology estimates that half the state’s wetlands have been lost since European settlers first arrived and has declared mitigation banking a potential solution to this trend. But recreating wetlands in the form of mitigation banks is tricky.”