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	<title>Lighthouse News &#187; Threatened</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Global Warming and Lighthouses</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse-news.com/2008/02/06/global-warming-and-lighthouses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Another Lighthouse Threatened
	 From the pages of The Daily in Australia comes a little story about the Bribie Island Lighthouse (front range), Queensland, being another threatened by erosion.  Unusually violent storms, winds, flooding are taking their toll on this and other lighthouses from Canada to the US; to Europe to Australia.  According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Rocks For Lighthouse</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse-news.com/2007/12/30/wanted-rocks-for-lighthouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Erosion Threatening New Point Comfort Lighthouse
	Sitting on a quarter acre pile of rocks in Chesapeake Bay, the New Point Comfort Lighthouse is precariously perched as the winter storms will toss them around. Abandoned by the Coast Guard in 1963 and left to weather the storms, waves and vandalism, this once proud beacon&#8217;s land is washing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Island Abandons A Lighthouse</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse-news.com/2007/12/27/an-island-abandons-a-lighthouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Another Loss To Erosion
	Sand Island Lighthouse, Alabama, sitting on what was once an island but is now just a little pile of leftover granite boulders, is the latest in a long list of lighthouses threatened by erosion. Built on wooden pilings sunk deep into the sand, rot has eaten away its foundation. And the island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Causes Crumbling Coastline</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse-news.com/2007/12/24/climate-change-causes-crumbling-coastline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	An Ounce of Prevention
	Climate change, aka Global Warming, is being blamed for the erosion of dunes at the West Point Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island. The site it has guarded mariners against since 1876 now threatens to approach the light, bringing it down. Although it&#8217;s not in any present danger, a call to action was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Lighthouses</title>
		<link>http://lighthouse-news.com/2007/12/08/a-tale-of-two-lighthouses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Plum, Pilot Islands Transferred
	These two Door County (Wisconsin) lighthouses and their respective islands were finally transferred from the US Coast Guard to the US Fish and Wildlife Service this past October, after decades of bureaucratic red tape and legal wrangling over environmental cleanup issues. Terms of the conveyance required the Service to partner with a [...]]]></description>
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