An all-in-one UPDATED guide to the National Wildlife Refuge system that describes over 530 U.S. wildlife reserves. This guide contains detailed explanations of each refuge's habitat and wildlife, as well as refuge amenities. Butcher provides information helpful to both the novice wildlife observer and the expert environmentalist. Butcher's work also contains 240 full-color photographs that show the magnificent beauty held within these refuges.

Excerpt from The National Wildlife Refuge System Management and Policy Act of 1993: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environment and Natural Resources of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 833; August 9, 1994 The other feature we believe is vital to the legislation is a sun shine provision for public review and comment on refuge activities and uses. The Senate bill currently would permit elimination of public review provisions if the review had been provided during the planning process. We cannot agree that such a narrowing of public input to refuge management decisions is desirable. The right of all refuge users and supporters to voice their opinions and concerns about refuge management should be preserved in this bill. Mr. Chairman, I have listed my major concerns, or our major concerns in my testimony, and I won't go over those again. I thank you for the opportunity to testify and I will be happy to take ques tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.