Roger Payne
Roger Payne
Roger Searle Payneis an American biologist and environmentalist famous for the 1967 discoveryof whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling...
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Whales are humanity's canary in the coal mine, ... As ocean pollution levels increase, marine mammals like whales will be among the first to go.
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Pretty much as long as the official authorities at the state or local level agree or, let's say now, don't disagree, it automatically happens,
change rare
It's rare that we do change a name.
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The board members will now weigh all of this and decide. But I can tell you that since the state and the Forest Service and the counties have agreed, I would be very surprised if they were not approved.
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It's a big deal to change a name.
agreement pay
The agreement we've got, they're going to pay it back,
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Those were the old antiquated British forms, and they wanted a more clean American form, ... It really hadn't gotten its sea legs yet because this had never been done anywhere else in the world.
anyone far proposed word
As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.
folks local
The most important thing to us is what the local folks want to use.
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All variables being equal, the most important thing is local use and acceptance. Frankly, outside of a few policies, the federal government doesn't care what the name is. ... That's why we ask and pretty much require their recommendation.