HONOLULU (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard has completed a fly-over of the damage one of the world’s largest marine reserves sustained in the tsunami.
Coast Guard officials will be showing photographs and data taken from a flight over the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in a planned briefing Monday. State wildlife agencies have been trying to figure out the best strategy for completing clean-up and ecosystem restoration at the 10 atolls and islands that make up the monument.
The Coast Guard says the March 11 tsunami washed away tens of thousands of tropical sea birds that were nesting in the reserve.
Field camp workers, volunteers and others at Laysan Island and Kure Atoll were successfully evacuated by ship.
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