What role does science play in generating a new shoreline master program?
Science plays a very important part in preparing an SMP. For example, following RCW 90.58.100 (1), local governments are instructed to “utilize a systematic interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental design arts and consider all plans, studies, inventories and systems of classification made or being made by federal, state, regional or local agencies . . .
