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As of 2022, there are 588 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, [1] with the addition of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge. [2] Refuges that have boundaries in multiple states are listed only in the state where the main visitor entrance is located.
Sursur Rural District (Persian: دهستان سورسور) [3] is in Muchesh District of Kamyaran County, Kurdistan province, Iran. [4] Its capital is the village of Yusofabad . [ 5 ]
Fishermen's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal. A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) [1] providing protection from the local environment. [2] A shelter can serve as a home or be provided by a residential institution. [3] [4] It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent ...
Animal rescue group, organizations dedicated to the rescue of animals, including pets, from shelters, to homes; Animal Rescue Foundation, San Francisco Bay Area based charity dedicated to pet adoption and other animal welfare works; Animal sanctuary, sites dedicated to caring permanently for rescued wild or domestic animals
The American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) together developed the National Shelter System (NSS).Under the National Response Plan, now called the National Response Framework, the American Red Cross is the Co-Primary Agency with FEMA responsible for the Mass Care portion of Emergency Support Function #6 - Mass Care, Temporary Housing and Human Services.
Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 Coober Pedy dugout, Australia. A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
In the southwestern United States, a ramada (from Spanish rama 'branch') is a temporary or permanent shelter equipped with a roof but no walls, or only partially enclosed. Ramadas have traditionally been constructed with branches or bushes by indigenous Americans living in the region. However, the term today is also applied to permanent ...
However, the "wattle" portion of jacal structures consists mainly of vertical poles lashed together with cordage and sometimes supported by a pole framework, as in the pit-houses of the Basketmaker III period of the Ancestral Puebloan (a.k.a. Anasazi) people of the American Southwest. This is overlain with a layer of mud/adobe (the "daub ...