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The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum is a 1000-acre (4.05 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia and Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania. Adjacent to Philadelphia International Airport , the refuge protects the largest remaining freshwater tidal marsh in Pennsylvania.
Pool Wildlife Sanctuary: Emmaus: Lehigh: Lehigh Valley: website, 77.5 acres, Wildlands Conservancy's main office, features the Air Products Environmental Education Center Powdermill Nature Reserve: Rector: Westmoreland: Pittsburgh Metro Area: website, environmental research center of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, over 2,200 acres
The Seneca Division, consisting of 3,571 acres (1,445 ha), is 10 miles (16 km) north of the Sugar Lake Division and borders French Creek near Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. The Erie National Wildlife Refuge was designated an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society because of the diversity of habitat it provides to the approximate ...
Although summers are typically comfortably humid at Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, episodes of heat and high humidity can occur with heat index values > 94 °F (34 °C). Since 1981, the highest air temperature was 98.0 °F (37 °C) on 07/22/2011, and the highest average mean dew point was 71.6 °F (22 °C) on 08/28/2018.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to take action to protect the threatened Canada lynx population in the continental United States. The Service proposed changes to ...
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Bee Lick Creek in the Jefferson Memorial Forest, a National Audubon Society wildlife refuge. A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed ...
View at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1909. The zoo first started as the National Museum's Department of Living Animals in 1886. [12] By an act of Congress on March 2, 1889, [13] [14] [15] for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people", the National Zoo was created.