By Kathryn Ritchie
Sorry I’m bombarding you all at once like this-it seems all quarter I’ve been dealing with stomach bugs, head bumps, strep throat, and, most recently, conjunctivitis (a child in preschool in winter ends up with everything possible…), but now the weather is better and it’s only allergies, so I finally have the free time for this assignment.
I found a site at Columbia for Case Studies in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism ( http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/eesj/casestudies/sonar.html ), which raised the rather interesting question of why public reaction might be different for Makah whaling versus the whales which were found beached and with hemorrhaging in their brains due to Navy sonar testing (found here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0331_040331_whalesincrisis.html ). Apparently, because the Navy is not intentionally whaling and is conducting “science,” that makes it okay for whales to rot on beaches? The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that sonar testing is necessary for homeland security, and the whales aren’t as important. How about the revitalization of the Makah culture? Shouldn’t that have equal importance?
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