The damage done by detergents and steam-cleaning - not oil - to that place was terrible. There are still sterile patches.
But the ‘control’ beach they just left to itself has done really well.
Very interesting. This may be one reason why a friend of mine in the logging business tells me that they don’t re-plant trees where he works. They simply clear-cut an area, strip the limbs off the pine trees right there, and leave the branches and pine cones behind to re-seed the area naturally.
Post 11: interesting! And hopeful.