Blue Goose Passports and the National Wildlife Refuge System

Blue Goose Passports are a fun way to record your visits to any of the 563 National Wildlife Refuges you visit. The inexpensive book includes listings for the different refuges, a little about them, and when they were established. Most listings have space for their own distinctive stamp, which you can get for free, usually

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Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge – New Proposal for Northern Illinois Wildlife Refuge

There is a new proposal currently underway to create a new National Wildlife Refuge close to Birdfreak Headquarters (aka, northern Illinois). This new refuge would be called Hackmatack NWR and located in Walworth County in southern Wisconsin and McHenry County in northern Illinois. The name Hackmatack (hack-ma-tack) is an Algonquin Indian word for the Tamarack

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Refuge Watch

Started on September 20th of this year, Refuge Watch is a wonderful blog showcasing the “News and Events From America’s National Wildlife Refuges”. Why exactly are National Wildlife Refuges important? How about because they are home to: over 700 species of birds around 220 species of mammals approximately 250 reptile and amphibian species more than

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