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- Oil slick comes ashore
- Oil spills; Oil spills; Coastal environments
- A dollar is placed next oil washed up on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge to provide perspective. Oil began hitting the shores of Bon Secour in the late morning of June 11th.
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- Oil slick comes ashore on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge.
- Oil spills; Oil spills; Coastal environments;
- Discolored seaweed and debris that came in contact with oil on Bon Secour.
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- Oil slick comes ashore on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge.
- Oil spills; Oil spills; Coastal environments;
- Gooey masses of oil such as this one will bake in the sun and turn into "tarballs," which are much easier for cleanup crews to deal with.
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- Berm building in Gulf
- Oil spills; Oil spills; Employees (USFWS); Service patch;
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employee Mike Krebs uses a pump in the process of building a protective berm at the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The berm will act as a barrier if oil comes ashore.
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- Bald Eagle
- Alaska; Kodiak Island; Raptors; Birds of prey;
- Bald eagle draws wings back as it comes into the nest for a landing. Bald eagles generally lay 2 to 3 eggs in a large nest made of sticks and smaller twigs in tall trees or on rocky cliffs.
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- California gull
- History; Historic sites; Birds; Marine birds; Migratory birds; Shorebirds; Photography; Wildlife refuges;
- A Filney and Bohlman hand painted glass slide of California gull's in Klamath Marsh, 1905. "It seems to me that the gull is more nearly at the head of class than any other bird, when it comes to intelligence... he lives s simple, easy life,...
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- CanWeGoOutside
- Camping; Children; Connecting people with nature;
- Children from the FWS's 2010 Wilderness Camp on Mt. Hood watch as the snow snow comes down and wait for their chance to "GO OUTSIDE".
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