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HucksOnline: Best Of INW — 4.20.10

** CORRECTS THIRD SENTENCE TO READ "NOT UNUSUAL"  **Pam Martin with Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network examines a dead gray whale that washed ashore in the Arroyo Beach neighborhood in West Seattle, on Thursday, April 15, 2010.  It's reportedly the fifth dead gray whale found this month _ four in Puget Sound waters and the fifth near Vancouver, British Columbia. Marine biologists say it's not unusual for five to seven whales to die in a migration season as they make their way north to their summer feeding grounds around Alaska. But more deaths would be cause for concern. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
** CORRECTS THIRD SENTENCE TO READ "NOT UNUSUAL" **Pam Martin with Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network examines a dead gray whale that washed ashore in the Arroyo Beach neighborhood in West Seattle, on Thursday, April 15, 2010. It's reportedly the fifth dead gray whale found this month _ four in Puget Sound waters and the fifth near Vancouver, British Columbia. Marine biologists say it's not unusual for five to seven whales to die in a migration season as they make their way north to their summer feeding grounds around Alaska. But more deaths would be cause for concern. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

Pam Martin with Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network examines a dead gray whale that washed ashore in the Arroyo Beach neighborhood in West Seattle April 15. It's reportedly the fifth dead gray whale found this month _ four in Puget Sound waters and the fifth near Vancouver, British Columbia. See Orbusmax Special below to see what biologists found when it opened this one up. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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