Gray whale

Today on the show, you'll hear from an environmental organization, Defenders of Wildlife, on how the Trump administration is trying to remove that rule and gain major new access for logging.

Then, at the end of the show, our reporter tells us about a national conference held locally to try and help the threatened population of gray whales off the coast.

Music Sometimes the more simple a policy is, the more effective.

For years now, limiting the building of roads in our national forests has helped reduce logging of those same forests.

Thanks so much for coming on and talking to our audience.

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As we finish out the show today, we're going to bring in one of our reporters to update us on a recent symposium held at the coast to figure out how to help the threatened population of gray whales.

KLCC's Weekend Edition host and reporter, Brianna Bowman.

And these stories today, I think, give us a proper example of what's happening.

So this first one is from scientificamerican.com titled Gray Whales are Washing Up Dead on the West Coast.

For whatever reason, it is so much more noticeable, so much easier to feel like it's a big deal when the animal is big.

In this case, we're talking about one of the largest mammals on Earth, which is the whale.

Of course, there are larger species than the gray whale, but you get the point.

The subtitle of the article is Up and Down the Pacific Coast, Dead Gray Whales are Mysteriously Washing Ashore, and Scientists Think They Know Why.

The bodies kept appearing as if out of nowhere.

In March, a whale corpse was found floating in San Francisco Bay.