A tourist passing through Prince william sound today probably would see no sign the place with clean water and oil spill. The coast is once more a spectacular, wild the sanne as beaches. However, experienced scenery is not quite to before. For beaches workers used hot water to clean oil off the one thing, the are clean. The many kinds of plants. rocks and sand. in the process they also eed, for example, is a brown plant that grows on rocks and in shallow coast, but almost Before the clean-up, it was very common along that completely disappeared. Another difference is the decrease in the bird of tion. Over million birds dued direct result of the oil spill. Certain kinds ducks and ocean birds were especially unfortunate. Researchers guess that their popu- declined by up to 70-80%.