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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

10,000 Birds

For example, the federal government owns less than 1% in Connecticut but nearly 80% in Nevada. Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. There is one gigantic outlier: Alaska. million acres).