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The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,988-acre (24.981 sq mi) National Wildlife Refuge located adjacent to Denver and Commerce City, Colorado, in the United States. It is approximately 8 miles (13 km) northeast of downtown Denver .
Passage Key National Wildlife Refuge: Manatee County: FL 1905: 64 acres (0.26 km 2) [92] Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge: Indian River County: FL 1903-First National Wildlife Refuge in U.S. 5,376 acres (21.76 km 2) [93] Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge: Lee County: FL 1908: 601 acres (2.43 km 2) [94] Pinellas National Wildlife ...
Key West National Wildlife Refuge: Florida 208,308.17 842.99 ... Baca National Wildlife Refuge: Colorado: 78,696.65 318.47 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge: Utah:
A series of Wildlife refuges have been set up to manage some areas for wildlife, and have been credited with protecting endangered spies from dispersing from the valley, including the Yuma Clapper Rail and Cottonwood Willow. [2] Such refuges in this region include: Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge [3] Cibola National Wildlife Refuge [4]
The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a 5,237-acre (21.19 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in the United States, located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Denver, Colorado. The refuge is situated west of the cities of Broomfield and Westminster and situated north of the city of Arvada .
The mission of the refuge system is "To administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of the present and future generations of Americans" (National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997).
Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge is a 13,450-acre (5,440 ha) U.S. National Wildlife Refuge located in northwestern Colorado. It is located in Moffat County in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, in an isolated mountain valley of Browns Park on both sides of the Green River , approximately 25 miles (40 km) below Flaming Gorge Dam .
Florida scrub jay, snakeroot, scrub blazing star, Carter's mustard, papery Whitlow-wort, Florida bonamia, scrub lupine, highlands scrub hypericum, Garrett's mint, scrub mint, pygmy fringe-tree, wireweed, Florida ziziphus, scrub plum, eastern indigo snake, bluetail mole skink, sand skink: 659 National Key Deer Refuge: Key deer: 8,542 St. Johns NWR