Issue 803, Published Fabruary 26, 2026
Larger than life and twice as crazy, the fierce activist and defender of 'God's Whales,' Byrd Baker, joined Greenpeace in confronting enormous whaling ships from Russia, Korea, and China in an inflatable Zodiac, enrolled his friends in a movement he started in Mendocino to end the wholesale slaughter of whales, which contributed to the establishment of a two hundred-mile zone off US coastlines and ended most whaling in the open seas worldwide.