Scientists are asking for private beaches to study gray whale carcasses as more wash ashore on the West Coast.
Authorities are now scrambling to find remote stretches of sand that are privately owned, with proprietors who don't mind hosting a rotting creature that's bigger than a school bus and has a stench to match its size.
Officials examine a decomposing whale that washed ashore, Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Port Ludlow, Washington.The first private-beach owners to respond, a Washington state couple, received their carcass earlier this month.
Since the Port Townsend, Washington, couple welcomed the carcass, 15 more private individuals have signed on to do the same, mostly in remote areas around the Salish Sea in far northwest Washington state, Milstein said. Now, it's about"getting people to step up and say, 'Yeah, we can take these animals and have them on our beach,'" said Betsy Carlson, the citizen science coordinator for the Port Townsend Marine Science Center.
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