Hagerman NWR: Birding Amidst Oil Wells
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2019
In 1951, oil was discovered and facilities were installed to allow for extraction and transport of the oil. The weather was dreadful and there was a hunting event that made much of the refuge inaccessible for birding, but Okhlaoma no longer taunts me on my eBird profile page. So the oil wells keep pumping away.
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