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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.
The salt works was not profitable and did not last long. The dike was kept, behind which fresh-water runoff drowned the vats and the canal, creating a convenient refuge for birds. The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge extends to the foot of Bar Hill on the southern side of Stage Island Pool; that is, the pool is not in the state park. Stage ...
Plum Island is a barrier beach sheltering the Plum Island River, Plum Island Sound, and the mouths of the Parker, Rowley, Eagle Hill and Ipswich rivers. The entire area between the islands and the mainland is grassland laced with tidal creeks. At high tide the grassland is entirely submerged, in some places by only a few inches of water.
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge: Plum Island: 1942 4,662 acres (18.87 km 2) [199] Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge: Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont: 1997 31,216 acres (126.33 km 2) [200] Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge: Thacher Island: 1972 22 acres (0.089 km 2) [201]
The house on the way to Plum Island. The Pink House is an uninhabited historic house and popular photography and painting subject located at 60 Plum Island Turnpike, Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. [3] [4] The house was built in 1925 and was privately owned until it was sold to Parker River National Wildlife Refuge for $375,000 in 2011.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.
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". [20] [citation needed]
A photo taken with a drone shows the tide coming in Friday, April 8, 2022, to Pritchards Island where the abandoned USC-owned laboratory formerly that was used for coastal research and the study ...