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Patuxent Research Refuge is divided into three areas: 1) North Tract, which offers hunting, fishing, wildlife observation, trails, and many interpretive programs; 2) Central Tract, where the headquarters for both the refuge and the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center are located, as well as research study sites; and 3) South Tract, which has ...
Patuxent National Wildlife Visitor Center entrance sign. The land that currently encompasses the 12,841 acres (51.97 km 2) of Patuxent Research Refuge was primarily used for farming from the colonial period until at least World War I. Prominent landowners, such as the Snowden and Duvall families, owned significant portions of land during the colonial era and well into the 19th century.
Southeast South Dakota 1961 82,731 acres (334.80 km 2) [474] Madison Wetland Management District: East Central South Dakota 1969 129,700 acres (525 km 2) [475] Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Brown County: 1935 21,498 acres (87.00 km 2) [476] Sand Lake Wetland Management District: North Central South Dakota 1961 45,000 acres (180 km 2) [477]
Patuxent Research Refuge: Laurel: Prince George's: Capital: National Wildlife Visitors Center is located in the South Tract Phillips Wharf Environmental Center: Tilghman: Talbot: Eastern Shore: website, environment of the Chesapeake Bay: Pickering Creek Audubon Center: Laurel: Talbot: Eastern Shore
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Only 1,000 feet separate Patuxent Research Refuge from Piney Orchard Nature Preserve, separated by the train tracks of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor; thus unofficially the smaller Preserve is an unincorporated portion of the larger refuge, which supports a similar and larger set of native flora and fauna around 3,300 species. [7] [8] [6] [9] [10]
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, Dorchester County; Deep Creek Lake State Park Discovery Center, Garrett County; Eden Mill Nature Center, Pylesville; Irvine Nature Center, Owings Mills; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore; Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel; Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore
Patuxent Research Refuge; S. Susquehanna River National Wildlife Refuge This page was last edited on 21 September 2014, at 23:06 (UTC). ...