The Daily Spill: Bird Recovery
“We grabbed the birds, check them for oil in their mouths and eyes. If they’re unable to fly we take them to the recovery center.”
We’re very excited to have cartoonist Shannon Wheeler with us on this project as he’s working on documenting the whole project through drawings and cartooning. We’ll be featuring some of his daily sketches — pulled directly from his sketchbook — here on The Daily Spill. Keep checking back for more!
“If there’s one positive outcome in this event, it’s in rethinking our oil use.”
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most beaches on the gulfcoast are flat . i suggest do a little recon sometimes before you write you will sound more informed . most of the marsh grasses will die , the vegetation will shed and wash away as aresult from being encapsulated with oil . unlike other environments the marsh grasses will regenerate and the regrowth will give few hints that a spill occurred . after a few years the effects of the spill will be distant memories . if you were sporting all those dumb signs and looking like somekind of lost east coaster that ended up on the west coast and finally the third coast you probably stood out like a sore thumb to the people there . no wonder no one was talking when you were around . realize that you entered a tight knit area where everyone knows everyone and you shut up in front of strangers .
Actually, I think that driving from Oregon, to check out the Gulf Coast in person sounds like more “recon” than most people are doing, Steve.
I grew up down there. My family still lives in Louisiana. What people in Louisiana hate most of all is having people who don’t know who they are or how they live and survive tell them how they should live and survive and what’s best for them.
A project like this is good if the people participating are actually listening to the people and trying to learn what it is THEY want and how THEY feel. If the participants are there with an agenda OTHER than learning about the people that live there and the effects this disaster has had on their lives and how they plan to recover, they will get a lot of silence and told to leave.
I hope they do the former.
Thank you for going to the gulf to try to help, and thank you for taking the time to post an informative and well-written blog (as opposed to the embarrassing comment by Steve). It is important for us to hear about the people that live there and their experiences. Keep up the good work, and please keep posting so we can follow your journey.
thanks for this post. Descriptive and opinionated, like blog posts should be
Excellent post. I’m not sure what the issues that Steve and Daniel have with it (wish they would have been more descriptive as to what in your post bothered them), but I find what you’re doing fantastic.
Thank you for taking the time to let the rest of the world what’s going on down here and please continue. Also, your photography is great!
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