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Vol.
XXIV, No. 1January/February, 1999
Images
of some of our Nation's environmental disasters are all too easy to recall:
blackened beaches, oil soaked birds and marine mammals struggling for
life, and chemically poisoned fish littering the shoreline. Equally serious,
but not as dramatic, is the more subtle damage to wildlife populations
from other sources, such as pollutants that interfere with reproduction
or disrupt complex ecological relationships. Preventing these problems,
measuring the effects when they do occur, and directing restoration activities
comprise a huge undertaking. Within the Fish and Wildlife Service, the
responsibility rests with the Environmental Contaminants Program. In this
edition of the Bulletin, we take a look at some of the efforts to ensure
a safe environment for wildlife and people alike. |