The Nation - News from Sept. 16, 1986

Volunteers trying to rescue seals and porpoises cut off from the sea by a surging Alaskan glacier have been ordered by Wrangell-St. Elias National Park officials to stay off the ice dam for safety reasons, officials said. Howard Rosenfeld, director of Washington state’s Friday Harbor Whale Museum, which is coordinating the rescue, said the rescuers will obey. But he said they might place food along the dam to lure the animals close enough to be captured. Volunteers will keep trying to save the animals from starvation for at least another week.