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The other ancestor of the USFWS began as the Section of Economic Ornithology, which was established within the United States Department of Agriculture in 1885 and became the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy in 1886. [18] In 1896 it became the Division of Biological Survey.
TX 1969 45,730 acres (185.1 km 2) [504] Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge: Hidalgo County: TX 1943 2,088 acres (8.45 km 2) [505] Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge: Jefferson County: TX 1979 8,972 acres (36.31 km 2) [506] Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge: Liberty County: TX 1994 30,000 acres (120 km 2) [507] Bear River Migratory Bird ...
The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA), west of the town of High Island, Texas. It borders East Bay, part of the Galveston Bay complex, behind Bolivar Peninsula at the Gulf of Mexico. Established in 1963, this wildlife refuge is located on the upper Texas Coast in Chambers ...
And by Executive Order of March 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, along Florida's central Atlantic coast, as the first unit of the present National Wildlife Refuge System. It is misleading, however, to conclude that this was the genesis of wildlife sanctuaries in the United States.
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In the 1950s, Fort Crockett became home for fisheries research for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1958 Texas A&M Marine Lab came to occupy part of the former army barracks. In 1963, the largest of the buildings in the Fort Crockett complex was renovated to house the new Texas Maritime Academy of Texas A&M University (Now called the Texas ...
McFaddin, much the larger one, located at around , has a total area of 58,861.43 acres (238.2038 km 2), while the smaller Texas Point, located at around , has 8,952.02 acres (36 [ 1 ] Texas Point and McFaddin refuges supply important feeding and resting habitat for migrating and wintering populations of waterfowl using the Central Flyway .
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.The 120,000-acre (49,000 ha) refuge is located almost entirely in Cameron County, Texas, 25 mi (40 km) east of Harlingen, [2] although a very small part of its northernmost point extends into southern Willacy County.