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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. It was founded in 1939 and is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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 ...
The WMAs are supported by sale of hunting and fishing licenses. Along with the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge to the south, they feed half of the waterbirds that winter in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. [2]
Bosque on the Rio Grande near Bernalillo, New Mexico NASA image of Albuquerque, New Mexico showing the green bosque area surrounding the Rio Grande Grus Canadensis captured in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Ballooning through the bosque near the Rio Grande. A bosque (/ ˈ b oʊ s k eɪ / BOHSS-kay) [1] [2] is a type of gallery ...
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.
Chile farms line the irrigated valley where the Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge draws bird watchers from around the world to see tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and other migratory wildfowl ...
Although Puerto Rico has no natural units in the National Park System, the biodiversity of the island is recognized and protected through a national forest, a national wildlife refuge, a national wilderness, and numerous state parks (called national parks in Puerto Rico [1]), nature reserves, state forests, wildlife preserves and other ...
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