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Birdsacre: Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary: Ellsworth: Hancock: 200-acre preserve, 19th-century historic house museum and modern nature center Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary: Monson: Piscataquis: website, over 1,600 acres, center open seasonally, operated by Maine Audubon: East Point Audubon Sanctuary: Biddeford: York
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge is one of the northernmost National Wildlife Refuges in the Atlantic Flyway, a migratory route that follows the eastern coast of North America. The refuge provides important feeding and nesting habitat for many bird species, including waterfowl , wading birds , shorebirds , upland game birds , songbirds , and ...
The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,125-acre (37 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge made up of several parcels of land along 50 miles (80 km) of Maine's southern coast. Created in 1966, it is named for environmentalist and author Rachel Carson , whose book Silent Spring raised public awareness of the effects of DDT on migratory ...
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge contains more than 50 offshore islands and four coastal parcels, totaling more than 8,100 acres. The complex spans more than 250 miles (400 km) of Maine coastline and includes five national wildlife refuges—Petit Manan, Cross Island, Franklin Island, Seal Island, and Pond Island.
Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Town of Milford, Penobscot County, Maine, approximately fourteen miles north of Bangor.The refuge was established in 1988 to ensure the ecological integrity of the Sunkhaze Meadows peat bog and the continued availability of its wetland, stream, forest and wildlife resources to the citizens of the United States.
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge: Collier County: FL 1989 26,400 acres (107 km 2) [80] Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge: Monroe County: FL 1938 130,187 acres (526.85 km 2) [81] Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge: Martin County: FL 1969: 1,035 acres (4.19 km 2) [82] Island Bay National Wildlife Refuge: Charlotte County: FL ...
Maine Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state owned lands managed by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.The WMAs comprise approximately 100,000 acres and contain a diverse array of habitats, from wetland flowages critical to waterfowl production to the spruce-fir forests of northern Maine on which Canada Lynx, moose and wintering deer are dependent.
Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge is a 1-mile long (1.6 km) island off the coast of Maine, United States near Matinicus Island that is part of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge. During any given summer season, over 100 species of birds are observed by researchers on the island.