Oregon is known nationally for its trees and outdoor recreation, but what about the exploding whale? In November 1970, a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach near Florence on the Oregon Coast. To get ...

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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon highway engineer whose 1970 decision to use a half-ton of dynamite to blast away a beached dead whale became an Internet sensation has died. George Thomas Thornton ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — No, authorities in Oregon are certainly not blowing up a beached whale carcass with dynamite — again — like officials near the coastal town of Florence decided to do in 1970.

Then Worwag cut him open. Worwag, a veterinarian, said she and her husband volunteered to host the dead whale on their Port Hadlock, Washington, property amid a spike in West Coast whale strandings ...