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June 6, 2014
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/05/extinction-starfish-sea-star-wasting-epidemic/
If we have a hydrologist here, esp. one familiar with the PacificNW....
Could you provide information ruling out Hanford as a potential source of toxins that might be causing this problem?
Extinction of Oregon Starfish Expected Due to Sea Star Wasting Epidemic
Oregon State University | June 5, 2014
Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon Coast and created an epidemic of historic magnitude, one that threatens to decimate the entire population of purple ochre sea stars.
Prior to this, Oregon had been the only part of the West Coast that had been largely spared this devastating disease....
Oregon State University | June 5, 2014
Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon Coast and created an epidemic of historic magnitude, one that threatens to decimate the entire population of purple ochre sea stars.
Prior to this, Oregon had been the only part of the West Coast that had been largely spared this devastating disease....
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/05/extinction-starfish-sea-star-wasting-epidemic/
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