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Vanessa Kauffman, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters spokeswoman, scouting for wildlife near Queen Bess Island in the Gulf of Mexico. Tom MacKenzie/USFWS
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BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010