Plastic Trash Bags Journey: From Fillmore to the Pacific Ocean

Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey:From Fillmore to the Pacific Ocean

Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Dropped by a Careless Someone in the

Fillmore Sespe Condor Sanctuary…

And Takes Flight in the Wind…

Meanwhile Shiny Microtrash Falls out of the Trash Bag

Into Condor Sanctuary

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

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/

Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River

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.

Plastic Trash Bag’s Journey: Falls in Santa Clara River

Fish ingest small pieces of plastic, mistaking it for food.

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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