10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Activities such as hunting, fishing, and trapping are categorized as “consumptive” uses. In contrast, consumptive uses were minor: fishing accounted for 10 percent and hunting was just 4 percent. Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 485,000; $12.1

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. The System also helps implement the Endangered Species Act and other federal conservation laws. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. It’s not just for the birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

We’ll just have to take Jochen’s word that there had been swiftlets in this sky… Donna sure had a good time on her visit to Texas in November! It was my last day in Texas, still many birds and butterflies to see. I write about this and more of my Texas birding experiences in my blog, Queensgirl.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Mike had just invited me to Nikon’s Prostaffer Retreat that was to be held at a ranch in south Texas. These wily and diminutive owls occur from Bolivia and Argentina northward through Central America (check out this post on Pico Bonito ) and only just occur in the United States in Arizona and south Texas.

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