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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource. Bear River MBR (Utah). For example, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is part of Gateway National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service. Anahuac NWR (Texas).

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The Golden-cheeked Warbler and Conservation Banks

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First, some background regarding the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the listing of the Golden-cheeked Warbler is required. Although many ESA regulations apply only to federal agencies, private entities that take actions that could adversely impact a listed species must first obtain a permit. What is a conservation bank? # # #.

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The National Wildlife Refuge System: Birders Leading the Way

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Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. Let us now give an example of wise conservation of what remains of the gifts of nature.” We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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For example, Santa Ana NWR in Texas has been in the news because the Trump Administration proposed building part of the border wall directly through it. (It For example, Kilauea Point NWR in Hawaii was created in 1985 with land transferred from the U.S. as to number of species). Aransas NWR (368 species and 42.7%

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Birding under Clouds of Uncertainty: Santa Ana NWR

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After all, each refuge has been set aside to permanently protect birds and other wildlife. But in the current political climate, even permanent environmental protections can prove transitory. It would also consider cost, design, location, and other variables, such as the impact on the environment, including endangered species.

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