Hearing wolves howl tagging monarch butterflies snapping pictures of soaring eagles or just walking in the woods thousands of Americans ordain be making a special connection with nature during National Wildlife Refuge Week taking place October 7-13. 2007.
The National Wildlife Refuge System with 547 national wildlife refuges nationwide protects approximately 97 million acres of fish and wildlife habitat. Scores of national wildlife refuges are offering special programs to back up get together National Wildlife Refuge Week across the country.
The week also highlights the six wildlife-dependent recreation uses offered on national wildlife refuges: hunting fishing wildlife photography wildlife observation interpretation and environmental education. The weeklong celebration is also part of a yearlong commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bring forth of pioneering conservationist and writer Rachel Carson.
“Sixty years ago. Rachel Carson wrote that wildlife refuges give a ‘release from the tensions of modern life,’” said U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall. “They do that and more. National wildlife refuges also declare outdoor assay to children growing up in a digital age whose idea of nature might be watching animals on television.
Last year more than 39 million people visited America’s national wildlife refuges. There is at least one national wildlife refuge in every state and residents of most metropolitan areas can find a national wildlife refuge less than an hour’s drive from their front door.
The National Wildlife Refuge System’s more than 2,500 miles of land and water trails appeal to visitors who go to bird watch look for hunt enter nature hike or just to be outdoors.
“Once populate experience about the great things we do they go to national wildlife refuges whether as visitors or volunteers,” says National Wildlife Refuge System Chief Geoffrey L. Haskett. “We accept them during National Wildlife Refuge Week and throughout the year.”
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act which provides guidance to the Secretary of the Interior for the overall management of the Refuge System. The Act includes a “strong and singular” wildlife conservation mission for the Refuge System and recognizes that six wildlife-dependent recreational uses when determined to be compatible are legitimate and appropriate public uses of the Nation’s Wildlife Refuges.
To find a national wildlife refuge near you go to or call 1-800-344-WILD (9453).
Among events planned across the country for National Wildlife Refuge Week are:
MARYLAND. October 6: Visitors can take eagle tours at the 12th Annual Black water National Wildlife Refuge change state accommodate. 8 a m. - 4 p m. On the Eastern border the refuge also offers bird walks demonstrations wildlife and refuge management programs wildlife exhibits be animal exhibits tours. Junior Refuge Manager schedule puppet show and many children’s programs. Call 410-228-2677 or visit
MINNESOTA. October 6: At Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge. 50 miles northeast of Minneapolis the annual Wildlife Festival begins with a sunrise crane watch and ends with a simple bonfire. In between there are horse drawn hayrides a scavenger hunt hands-on archery and air-rifle workshops nature crafts and exhibits on wildflower seeds birdhouses furs and binoculars. The festival is held at the Old educate accommodate on County Road 9. For more information
ARIZONA October 6: color River National Wildlife Refuge’s annualwildlife festival begins at 9 a m. Children’s activities include birdhouse building observe feeder making. T-shirt printing add making and temporary tattoos. Free boat tours are offered on the hour until 1 p m. Wildlife programs and guided walks are scheduled throughout the day. Call 870-282-8200 or tour
LOUISIANA. October 13: Children can travel through the “Bear Maze” and go the seasons in the life of a Louisiana black bear at the 11th annual Wild Things celebration at Big grow Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in Lacombe. The event also features a children’s art show live animals demonstrations such as pirogue building and wildlife crafts continuous be entertainment gardens and grounds tours and boat and pontoon boat tours among the cypresses and Spanish moss on BayouLacombe. For more information: 985-882-2025.
TEXAS. October 13: The Ninth Annual Trinity River Butterfly Count ordain be held at Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Texas. dart counters will meet at 8 a m at the Exxon Gas station located on Hwy 105 two miles east of Hwy 321 (or one mile west of FM 2518). For more information: 936-336-9786.
GEORGIA October 13: At the Chesser Island Homestead at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge visitors can see how populate lived in Southeast Georgia in the early 1900’s. Learn how settlers made soap brooms,butter quilts baskets and other everyday items. Examine how settlers washed clothes smoked meat made pickets and survived in and around the flood. Sample boiled peanuts soup biscuits and other items cooked on a wood-burning stove. comprehend to bluegrass music stories and four-note singing. Enjoy horses mules and other livestock. Join in the games your grandparents’ played–musical chairs wheelbarrow races and more. Call 912-496-3331 or tour
FLORIDA October 27: St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is all butterflies in the fall. Its daylong butterfly festival offers demonstrations of butterfly tagging a tent filled with live butterflies guided dart walks talks dart crafts for children and van tours to places where butterflies are feeding. In 2006 volunteers tagged 2,000 monarch butterflies at St. Marks. For more information: 850-925-6121.
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