While this is very welcome and overdue, it does, of course, exempt the military from this designation. So the Orcas can be protected against everything, except our military running secret experimental bombing, which by their own admission in their environmental review documents, will lead to death of wildlife. We consistently do not hold the military to the same environmental standards that we hold all other citizens. Without doing that, this is just more of the same, fiddling while nature burns.
The designation requires review of federal actions within the areas that could affect southern resident killer whales, providing additional oversight by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Filed under: Environmental Law, Environmental Protection, fishing, Puget Sound | Tagged: Clallam County, Environmental Protection, Puget Sound |
