Passions stay peaceful at meeting on whaling

Published 4:06 am Thursday, May 29, 2008

PORT ANGELES — Makah tribal members and passionate anti-whalers gathered Wednesday night in the Vern Burton Center, and the result was . . .

“Calmness,” as Keith Johnson, president of the tribe’s whaling commission, put it.

About 50 people turned out for the public meeting addressing a draft environmental-impact state­ment on the Makah’s proposed return to legal whaling.