Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge

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Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge
Location: Monroe County, Florida, USA
Nearest city: Marathon, Florida
Area: 6,207 acres (land), 123,980 acres (water) acres
Established: October 27, 1938
Governing body: National Park Service

The Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in a region known as the 'Backcountry', which reaches from north of Marathon to north of Key West. It is along the north side of the Keys in that area that border the Gulf of Mexico. The 130,187 acre refuge (6,207 of it land, 123,980 water) was established on October 27, 1938, as a haven for great white herons, migratory birds, and other wildlife Approximately 1,900 acres are designated as a National Wilderness Area. The refuge is administered as part of the National Key Deer Refuge.

[edit] Flora

The islands are covered mostly with mangroves, though some of the larger islands contain pine rockland and tropical hardwood hammock habitats.

[edit] Fauna

Hawksbill sea turtles have been known to feed in the refuge. Also, Loggerhead and Green sea turtles nest here.

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