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BREAKING UPDATE: Despite what we are being told by the unified command with the train derailment [Montana] wildlife IS IMPACTED!  Thanks to Billings photographer Alexis Bonogofsky (Instagram) for showing us exactly what’s going on downstream. Yes, that’s a dead bird stuck in the hot spilled asphalt."For those of you who want to share on your stories, I’m putting this photo as a post. Credit goes to Kayhan Ostovar from the Yellowstone River Research Institute at Rocky Mountain College.The media generally seems to be reporting only what is coming out in the Unified Command press releases. There is a lot of liquid asphalt gathering in the back channels and islands in the river, you know, where the turtles nest and bask and where cottonwood nursery’s are. It’s not just chunks and globs, (that’s what I keep hearing in the media)."@police_frequency