The first wildlife refuge established in the State of Washington was Quillavute Needles Wildlife Refuge, which was granted its status in far away 1907 and was among the first ten wildlife refuges established in the US. Except for nature preservation, wildlife refuges also provide now various recreation opportunities, like hunting and fishing, numerous hiking trails, education and interpretation, wildlife observation and of course photography.
Fish and Wildlife Service, grew up significantly, comprising now more than 560 wildlife refuges all over the United States, and providing habitat to more than 700 bird species, 220 mammal species, 250 species of reptiles and amphibians and more than a thousand of fish species. Since then the National Wildlife Refuge System, managed now by U.S. This was, actually, the first Federal Act, the partial aim of which was to protect the wildlife inhabiting the assigned territory.īut the first wildlife refuge (it actually was Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge) was established on Maby an Executive Order of Theodore Roosevelt.
On Jthe Act of Congress was enacted, which passed the Yosemite Valley from the common property to California State.
The creation of the National Wildlife Refuge System has started in the middle of the 19th century, when the public started realizing that unrestricted killing of wildlife and demolition of its habitat was systematically leading to the destruction of the irrecoverable national natural heritage.
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