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Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve: Suamico: Brown: Lake Michigan: Operated by the county, 920 acres of forest, meadows and wetlands, West Shores Interpretive Center [1] Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary: Green Bay: Brown: Lake Michigan: 700 acre urban wildlife refuge Beaver Creek Reserve: Fall Creek: Eau Claire: Mississippi/Chippewa Rivers
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge was established to provide and protect habitat for at least twenty-six endemic plants and animals, meaning they are found nowhere else in the world. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The concentration of locally exclusive flora and fauna that distinguishes Ash Meadows is the greatest concentration of endemic biota in any local ...
ME 1973 10 acres (0.040 km 2) [182] Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge: Cumberland County York County: ME 1966 9,125 acres (36.93 km 2) [183] Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge (Part of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge) Knox County: ME 1972 65 acres (0.26 km 2) [184] Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge: Penobscot ...
They also authorized that a part of a refuge's area could be opened to waterfowl hunting (now set at 40% by the NWRS Administration Act of 1966). Of equal importance in 1934 was the appointment by President Franklin Roosevelt of a special "blue ribbon" committee, consisting of Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling , chairman, and Thomas Beck and Aldo ...
The Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a component of the Delaware River estuary in Salem County, New Jersey, it is just north of the Salem River and south of Pennsville. The Delaware Bay and estuary are wetlands of international importance and an international shorebird reserve.
Osprey Wilds Environmental Learning Center (formerly Audubon Center of the North Woods) Sandstone: Pine: East Central: website, Two campuses (Main/Sandstone: 535-acres; Blacklock/Moose Lake: 562 acres [1]) residential environmental learning center and day use nature center Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center: Duluth: St. Louis: Arrowhead
This area contains large wetlands and forest tracts in addition to cropland, grassland, and old fields. Facilities/features: boat ramps, picnic areas, and waterfowl blinds. In addition, there are 3 major bodies of water: Che-Ru Lake, Bittern Marsh, and Jo : 7,486 acres 3,029 ha: Linn, Livingston
The avian family Anatidae, commonly called waterfowl, comprise the ducks, geese, and swans. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 174 Anatidae species distributed among 53 genera, 32 of which have only one species.