Oregon Officials Won’t Blow Up Their Recently Beached Whale Carcass — And Repeat The Mistake They Made In 1970
When a dead whale washed ashore on an Oregon beach in late May, it called to mind an incident in 1970 when the state detonated a beached whale with dynamite. This time, however, the state parks department was adamant: “History isn’t repeating itself.” Oregon State ParksThe decaying clay of the numb crookback whale that washed up in Nehalem Bay State Park in previous May . When a numb giant washed up on the beaches of Florence , Oregon in November 1970 , the United States Department of State made the infamous determination to deal with it in a rather unconventional direction : by blowing the whale up ....