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In addition to its primary role as a wildlife refuge, the Great Dismal Swamp also offers history, having been designated part of the Underground Railroad in 2003, the first national wildlife ...
Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge will present its June Second Sunday program “Cicadas: Strange and Charming” ...
Most of the blaze is in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Firefighters from across the country are battling it. The fire is the refuge's largest in recent history, surpassing a 2008 ...
Soon the visitor floodgates will open at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge (ONWR), but traffic was ... They were rewarded with a glimpse of two white, fluffy Great Horned Owl chicks hunkered down ...
Southeast of Norfolk, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge protects 112,000 acres of lowland forest, a landscape of bald-cypress, tupelo. Atlantic white-cedar, sweetgum, maple, and oak, with ...
The area's over 80,000 acres of national wildlife refuge ... vital to the area. One great way to see this is to hop on a guided tour, like the Honey Island Swamp Tour in Slidell that takes ...
Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge is initiating a public scoping period to gather information for a draft comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and habitat and species plan (HSP). This public ...
EAST LAKE, N.C. (WNCT) — Every year, the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge sends out a photo of, what they think, is the largest black bear living on the refuge. They said the North ...
President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a list of globally ...
WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WIVB) — The hike at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Genesee and Orleans counties is the only National Wildlife Refuge in Western New York. The calls of bald eagles ...