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White pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in migration flight over a barrier island fringing a Louisiana salt marsh in the Gulf of Mexico.

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White pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in migration flight over a barrier island fringing a Louisiana salt marsh in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: Congealed tallow, spilled in careless loading, cakes a section of the Houston shipping channel in Galveston Bay, Texas.

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Congealed tallow, spilled in careless loading, cakes a section of the Houston shipping channel in Galveston Bay, Texas. A cleanup worker sits in a dory nearby the confinement barriers.

Photo: Workers from Southern Native Plants out of Milton, Florida planting sea oats (Uniola paniculata) on a newly created sand dune to protect Dauphin Island, Alabama from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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Workers from Southern Native Plants out of Milton, Florida planting sea oats (Uniola paniculata) on a newly created sand dune to protect Dauphin Island, Alabama from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: Sand berms frame rows of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Alabama during the deep water horizon oil spill.

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Sand berms frame rows of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Alabama during the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: Sand berms frame rows of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Alabama during the deep water horizon oil spill.

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Sand berms frame rows of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Alabama during the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: Berms were built on a barrier island near Grand Isle, Louisiana, in an attempt to protect it from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Berms were built on a barrier island near Grand Isle, Louisiana, in an attempt to protect it from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Photo: Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marshes on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marshes on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Once oiled this heavily, marsh grasses will die.

Photo: Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marshes on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marshes on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Once oiled this heavily, marsh grasses will die.

An oiled white ibis (Eudocimus albus) lifts off from a rookery on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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An oiled white ibis (Eudocimus albus) lifts off from a rookery on a barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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