Plastic Trash Bags Journey: From Fillmore to the Pacific Ocean.
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Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey:From Fillmore to the Pacific Ocean
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Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Dropped by a Careless Someone in the
Fillmore Sespe Condor Sanctuary…
And Takes Flight in the Wind…
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Meanwhile Shiny Microtrash Falls out of the Trash Bag
Into Condor Sanctuary
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Microtrash Gets Ingested by Condors and Can Kill Them
Stomach contents of a 4-month old California Condor chick that died in the nest, June, 2006.Sespe Condor Sanctuary, Los Padres NF
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Solutions: Help a Condor- 1. Never Throw Trash
2. Volunteer to Pick Up Microtrash
http://www.habitatwork.org/NativeSpecies.htm
VOLUNTEER @HABITATWORK.ORG
VOLUNTEER @Friends of Condorshttp://www.friendsofcondors.org/
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Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River
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The Santa Clara River and Sespe Creek Once Had Plenty of Steelhead Trout
Southern steelhead trout captured near lower Sespe Creek by William A. Brown, winter 1911.
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Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River
Fish ingest small pieces of plastic, mistaking it for food.
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Solutions: Help a Steelhead Trout- 1. Never Throw Trash
2. Volunteer to Clean the Riverbed
http://www.fscr.org/html/events.shtml
VOLUNTEER @Friends of Santa Clara River
Congratulations, 8,500 pounds of trash and recyclable material was collected by volunteers.
http://www.fws.gov/pacific/news/2001/2001-34.htm
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