Photograph caption dated September 14, 1988 reads, "An emergency bathhouse to save the ducks: Far from his home on the stony banks of the Los Angeles River in the San Fernando Valley, an oily duck gets a bath at the North Central Animal Care and Control Center. One of 20 mallard patients there, the duck was a survivor of Sunday's 60,000 gallon Encino oil spill, some of which reached the river through storm drains. 'Even after they're clean, we have to keep them, because washing them removes the (natural) oil from their feathers, and they can't float,' said Dyer Houston of the Animal Regulation Department."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Oil spills--California--San Fernando Valley Ducks--California--San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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