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Protesters will take to WA State Parks this Saturday against SEAL training
Deception Pass State Park is one of the parks permitted for SEAL training. (WSDOT)
If you’re headed to a state park this weekend to enjoy the early spring weather, you may see some protesters. The group suing the Washington State Parks Commission over Naval SEAL training is organizing demonstrations in parks across the state.
The Whidbey Environmental Action Network’s Not in our Parks coalition is encouraging park-users to go out to their local state park on Saturday to picket, gather signatures, and speak to the public about why they oppose the Parks Commission’s January decision to allow Navy SEALs to train in more than a dozen coastal state parks.
New orca baby sparks questions over Naval training
Orca calf L125 swimming with its mother, Surprise. (Center for Whale Research)
But the memory of the death of this orca’s older sister is also sparking fears among some nature preservationists that history could repeat itself.
In 2012, L-112, or Victoria, the older sister of the new calf, was killed by blunt force trauma to the head.
“The blast trauma was really dramatic there was massive bleeding in the ears and the space of the ears,” said Kelley Balcomb-Bartok, communications director for the Pacific Whale Watch Association. “She died a miserable death.”