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"Critical Habitat" for Orcas Leaves Pockets of Vulnerability, Critics Say
Media Release
Aug. 8, 2006

This June a U.S. federal agency proposed that a vast swath of Washington State's Puget Sound region be granted federal protections to ensure the survival of an iconic killer whale population.
But area residents Tom and Margo Wyckoff, retired healthcare workers, were shocked to learn that Hood Canal, a barb-shaped fjord that slices a narrow path into the Olympic Peninsula, was excluded from the ruling.
So far a group of whales seen in two 1973 photographs taken in the canal have been identified as belonging to J pod, one of the three whale groups that make up the endangered population.
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