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The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (/ ˈ b oʊ s k eɪ d ɛ l ə ˈ p æ tʃ i / BOH-skay del ə-PATCH-ee, Spanish: [ˈboske ðel aˈpatʃe]; "Woodland of the Apache") is a National Wildlife Refuge located in southern New Mexico.
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1939 to protect a crucial stopover for migrating waterfowl, such as sandhill cranes and geese. Located in Socorro County, the refuge lies between the Chupadera Mountains to the west and the San Pascual Mountains to the east and contains 57,331 acres of land along both banks of the ...
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is located at 1001 State Highway 1 in San Antonio, New Mexico, 158 miles south of Santa Fe. The Festival of the Cranes is Wednesday, December 6, through ...
Sandhill cranes fly south for the winter. In their wintering areas, they form flocks over 10,000. One place this happens is at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, 100 miles (160 km) south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. An annual Sandhill Crane Festival is held there in November.
We cruised into Bosque del Apache around 3 p.m. and slowly circulated around the driving loop. We watched as two sandhill cranes swooped in to make a water landing and saw four deer crossing the road.
An independent study showed that between August 1993 and July 1994, 90,788 people visited Bosque del Apache, near the towns of Socorro and San Antonio, New Mexico.
The Bosque del Apache Wilderness comprises two separate sections, totaling 30,427 acres of the National Wildlife Refuge. There are an additional 172,143 acres of Forest Service Inventoried Roadless Areas and 159,891 acres of BLM Wilderness Study Areas in the county.
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