On February 4, 1999, the cargo ship M/V New Carissa went aground on the North Spit of Coos Bay, Oregon. After several days in the pounding surf the ship began leaking oil. When cracks appeared in the vessel, Unified Command decided to burn off as much of the vessel's 500,000 gallons of fuel oil as possible. During this operation the ship split in two, spilling a large quantity of oil into the marine environment. The bow section was eventually pulled off the beach, towed offshore sunk in international waters. The total amount of oil released from the New Carissa was estimated at up to 140,000 gallons. Search crews recovered 1,085 seabird carcasses including 26 marbled murrelets, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Trustees conducted a Natural Resource Damage Assessment to determine the extent of injury to natural resources. Through field studies and mortality modeling, we estimated a total of 2,465 seabirds and 672 shorebirds were killed by the incident. Losses to public recreation were also documented. In addition to receiving a $4M settlement from the owners/insurers of the New Carissa, Trustees submitted a claim to the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Pollution Funds Center to pay for restoration projects designed to compensate for these losses. Funded projects consisted of the purchase/management of 4,300 acres of coastal forest for nesting marbled murrelets, maintenance of open dune habitat for nesting western snowy plovers, predator management on seabird colonies, a public education project on seabirds, a 400-acre salt marsh restoration for shorebirds, and improvements at various recreational facilities along the coast.