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THIRTEEN Specials
Our Vanishing Wilderness: Of Broccoli and Pelicans
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The first program in this environmental series from the 1970s illustrates the tragic effects that can result when pesticides creep into nature’s food chains. It concerns specifically the demise of a major brown pelican flock and the unnatural behavior of seals on islands off the cost of California near Santa Barbara.