Letter from Kelli Middlestead About the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

4/13/1989

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Kelli Middlestead, a second grader at Franklin School in Burlingame, California, asked the Alaskan Regional Director of Fish and Wildlife Service, Walter Stieglitz, to clean up the Exxon Oil Spill. Her letter includes a drawing of sea otters.

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[drawing of sea otters]

April 13, 1989

Dear Sir,

I am very sorry but I am very mad about the oil spill. It is killing nature. And it is killing the sea otters.

It makes me very sad because my class is doing a report on sea otters. And sea otters are cute. Sea otters are an endangered species. Please clean up the oil spill.

Sincerely,
Kelli Middlestead.

Mrs. Ashley - 2nd grade
Franklin school.

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

National Archives Identifier: 596719

Full Citation: Letter from Kelli Middlestead from the Franklin School, Burlingame, California to Walter Stieglitz the Regional Director of the Alaska Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4/13/1989; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Correspondence, 1989 - 1991; Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Record Group 22; National Archives at Seattle, Seattle, WA. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/letter-from-kelli-middlestead, June 3, 2023]

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