Southern resident orcas live primarily in the Salish Sea near Seattle. They were hunted and captured for zoos to near extinction in order to lower their depredations on sports fisheries. Now our Puget Sound folks are distressed over their likely extinction. Rather than limit their ongoing Puget Sound sewage spills or removing the salmon-impeding Hiram M. Chittenden Locks to the Cedar River, they have focused on Southeast Washington’s dams. The plan is to keep the waters of Lake Washington pristine for the yacht clubs and hydroplane races, while grounding the wheat and soybean barges on the Snake as well as stressing our shared electrical grid. You would think Gov. Jay Inslee, who used to represent Southeast Washington in Washington D.C., would have been the adult and put a stop to this? Nope.
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Letter: Saving orcas is a statewide concern
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