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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

10,000 Birds

Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware); 166,000; $5.3 Chincoteague NWR (Virginia/Maryland): 7,000,000; $390 million; 3,647. million in activity and 19 jobs. million in economic activity and 8 jobs.

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