With the summer travel season kicking off this Memorial Day weekend, and gas prices hovering near $4 a gallon, it’s a good time to remember that our national wildlife refuges offer affordable, close-to-home recreation opportunities. Most American cities are just …
Archive for May, 2011 ↓
Connecting 4-H Youth with Wildlife Refuges using GIS
For almost ten years, 4-H members have been developing GPS and GIS skills through community mapping projects. With software grants from ESRI, youth in over 700 4-H groups nationwide have employed geospatial technologies in projects in rural, suburban and urban …
Celebrating Endangered Species Day
This month, four endangered whooping crane chicks hatched in the wild at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. It has been a banner year for the cranes at Necedah, with 20 pairs of the endangered birds nesting at the …
Celebrating Migratory Birds
Ever since President Theodore Roosevelt established the very first national wildife refuge in 1903 to protect pelicans at Pelican Island, Florida, refuges have been critical to birds. From hundreds of thousands of neotropical migrant songbirds that rest and feed at …
VIDEO: Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
David Raskin and Sharon Baur of the …
