"Since the beginning of time, the Sinkyone Council's member Tribes have
gathered, harvested and fished for traditional cultural marine resources in this
area, and they continue to carry out these subsistence ways of life, and their
ceremonial activities along this Tribal ancestral coastline," said Priscilla
Hunter, chairwoman and co-founder of the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness
Council. "Our traditional cultural lifeways, and our relatives such as the
whales and many other species, will be negatively and permanently impacted by
the Navy's activities."

Groups sue over Navy sonar impacts on marine mammals

by Dan Bacher

San Francisco - A broad coalition of conservation groups and American Indian
Tribes on January 26 sued the Obama administration for failing to protect
thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. Navy
warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon, and
Washington.

Earthjustice, representing the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, Center
for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Friends of the San Juans,
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and People For Puget Sound, filed a
lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California
challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service's approval of the Navy's
training activities in its Northwest Training Range Complex.

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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/30/18706119.php