Joe Bridgman, Information Officer for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, discovers subsurface oil from seemingly clean beach, Meares Point, Perry Island (Prince William Sound). 

'The balance of nature has been altered, what comes after the oil is gone is not the same as was here originally.'  says Bridgman

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