January 3, 2005
Oiled Wildlife and Habitat
(FWS Photos)
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Tar layered on beach, and oozing from gravel.
This tar and vegetation combination is common.
Tar mat floating in Skan Bay. Some areas of this tar mat
were six inches thick.
Tar gets rolled into gravel beaches and then oozes out
of the storm break. Some beaches are like a layer cake, with multiple
layers of tar deposited during storm events.
This tar seems splattered onto vegetation and has settled
into this spot on top of the grass.
This tar patty was on Volcano Bay, the furthest beach
north where crews have been able to look for oil.
This sea otter appears to have crawled onto the beach
and died, rather than dying at sea and washing in...
...only its eyes and ears were scavenged. The carcass
was covered with oil.
