The Region - News from March 10, 1986
A six-mile-long spill of sludge 40 miles west of Bakersfield has killed two endangered giant kangaroo rats and left numerous other small animals and lizards mired in the thick tarlike muck, the state Department of Fish and Game reported. The 30-foot-wide spill was found three miles north of the community of Fellows. The petroleum-based sludge partly filled a dry tributary to Buena Vista Creek in an area favored by two state-listed endangered species--the blunt-nosed leopard lizard and the giant kangaroo rat.
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