'Operation Orca'
The book Operation Orca (Harbour Publishing) recounts the efforts to save Springer in Puget Sound and Luna near Gold River from a lost whale's slow death. Along the way, in these four excerpts published by The Tyee, we learn about how our view of killer whales has profoundly changed in just a few short decades.
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After the Orca Gold Rush
When we finally counted killer whales, we learned we'd almost wiped them out.
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