Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge sits in a glacial bowl at 8,300 feet elevation--the highest refuge outside of Alaska. Here birds migrate seasonally not north and south but up and down the mountains. Visitors are almost certain to see the...
Atlantic salmon spend the first two years of life in the fresh water habitats of their native stream (occasionally three, depending upon food availability). At two years of age, the fish undergo the process of smoltification, resulting in changes...
Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge; Maryland; Law enforcement; Resource management
EASTERN NECK NWR HUNTER CHECK IN. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official checks in a hunter at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. The 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act gives priority to certain...
This is an example of a logging method known as clear-cutting. In clear-cutting, all the trees are taken from a specific area, as opposed to a select cut, in which only certain trees are taken from an area, thereby leaving some habitat remaining....
