This is an emergency call posted on behalf of Steph Dutton and Heidi Tiura, the well-known paddling/adventuring duo and gray whale advocates. A few months ago, Steph Dutton and I circulated a joint editorial about a planned gray whale hunt by the Makah whaling commission, a handful of businessmen from a Washington State Indian tribe. Steph and Heidi are presently on-site in Neah Bay, where they had hoped to offer the Makah whaling commission a non-lethal alternative to the Makah's planned slaughter of 5 gray whales this month. The Makah whaling commission have refused to consider anything short of killing these whales. To make matters more complex, I have personally, in hand at this time, federal documents requested under the freedom of information act, that proove the Makah whaling commission are launching this hunt in order to commence a future trade in whale meat with Japanese and other foreign whaling countries. At this point, Steph Dutton and his operation are in desparate need of feul and supporting donations to keep them on-site to continue field efforts to prevent the hunt from occuring. This call for help is for anyone who would support Steph and Heidi in this important field exercise -- please send whatever you can to them, c/o Heidi Tiura and Steph Dutton, C/O General Delivery, Neah Bay, WA 98357. Detailed updates are available from their website at www.graywhale.net. We've exhausted all other options... field intervention is absolutely necessary. Steph and Heidi's boat Sea Dog is one of only five on-site vessels that can handle the water enough to do any good. If you oppose the new slaughter of whales in the Pacific Northwest, please do what you can to help. Michael Kundu Project SeaWolf/Arcturus Adventure Communications "The Source for Extreme Adventuresports Photojournalism" respond to ProjectSeaWolf_at_seanet.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 00:09:02 PDT
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