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Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife sanctuary encompassing the majority of Plum Island in northeastern Essex County, Massachusetts, 5 miles southeast of Newburyport. It was established in 1942 primarily to provide feeding, resting, and nesting habitats for migratory birds.
Wellfleet Bay is located on land within the territory of the Nauset Indigenous nation. In the 19th century, the land was used for asparagus and turnip farming. [2] In 1929, ornithologist Oliver L. Austin founded the Austin Ornithological Research Center on the land. [1]
It is managed under the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently does not offer any interpretive facilities or programs at Thacher Island Refuge. A foot trail meanders through shrub / thicket , rocky outcrop and other island habitats and affords opportunities to observe and/or photograph birds and ...
The Parker River Refuge on Plum Island, Massachusetts is a national network of lands and rivers dedicated to the safety of its native wildlife and specifically the piping plover. Protecting the Piper with full beach closures, the Refuge now "has the second largest plover population on the [Massachusetts] North Shore ".
The Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a 12-mile-long (19 km) river wetlands conservation area, in two major parcels, stretching from the towns of Billerica, Massachusetts (downstream) to Wayland, Massachusetts (upstream), along the Concord River and Sudbury River.
The Parker River rises in the Otway Ranges in southwest Victoria, near Parkers Spur and flows generally south through the Great Otway National Park before reaching its river mouth and emptying into Bass Strait, east of Cape Otway and the Cape Otway Lighthouse, near Point Franklin.
Cutler Park is a state-owned nature preserve and public recreation area that lies between Route 128/I-95 and the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts.The state park's 772 acres (312 ha) contain the largest remaining freshwater marsh on the middle Charles River.
Parkers River is a river in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It drains out of Long Pond in West Yarmouth, flows through Seine Pond, and empties into the Nantucket Sound southeast of West Yarmouth. Named for Isaiah Parker who lived on the west bank of the river.