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The South Slough Interpretive Center features exhibits and a film about the flora, fauna, and ecology of the South Slough Estuary and its cultural history. [2] Programs include bird watching, tidepool explorations, nature walks, lectures and films. Maps and brochures are available, and there is also a gift shop.
The woods have been there since at least the 1700s as they featured on Jefferys Map of Buckinghamshire which was dated 1766–68. [6] In the 1950s the woodland was bought by the London County Council as part of the Britwell development. [6] In 1996 the site was declared as a local nature reserve by Slough Borough Council. [1]
The Big Slough Wilderness is a 3,455-acre (1,398 ha) protected area in Davy Crockett National Forest in Houston County, Texas, United States. The area was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1984 with the passage of the Texas Wilderness Act. It is the smallest wilderness in Texas.
The National Park Service established the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) within the region in 1974 and it is recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Although the diversity of animals in the area is high for a temperate zone with over 500 vertebrates, it is the complex mosaic of ecosystems and
The DESFBNWR is one of six wildlife refuges in the San Francisco Bay Area. The others are: Antioch Dunes, Ellicott Slough, Farallon, Marin Islands, and San Pablo Bay. It was renamed in 1995 in recognition of Congressman Don Edwards and his efforts to protect sensitive wetlands in south San Francisco Bay.
The Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest is in the U.S. state of Florida. The 32,039-acre (130 km 2 ) forest is located in the southwestern part of the state, near Felda . The forest gets its name from the Muskogee and when translated may mean "small bad water" [ 1 ] or "boggy slaw."
Saganashkee Slough is a 377 acres (153 ha), manmade riparian lake that forms part of the valley of the Cal-Sag Channel. [1] It is located in the Palos Forest Preserves of Cook County , Illinois , [ 1 ] on wetland that was drained but was later reverted to a lake starting in 1948-1949 by the construction of dams and levees. [ 3 ]
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