Английская Википедия:Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge
Шаблон:Infobox protected area Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge is located just north of Bastrop, Louisiana in Morehouse Parish, north central Louisiana. The refuge was established in 1988 with the southeast's first fee title transfer of a Farmer's Home Administration tract (466 acres) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A free lease of Шаблон:Convert from International Paper increased the refuge to the current Шаблон:Convert.
Wildlife and habitat
Handy Brake NWR has a wood duck nest box project. Water levels are manipulated to provide optimal habitat for nesting and wintering ducks. The refuge lands cleared for agriculture prior to the establishment of the refuge have been reforested to bottomland hardwoods.
An observation platform overlooks a permanent wetland, which is excellent habitat for wintering waterfowl, wading birds and many other wetland dependent species. Prairie grasses were established between the water and the observation tower. Periodic mowing or burning of this prairie area prevents woody vegetation from obscuring the view from the platform and provides habitat for grassland birds and other wildlife species.
Handy Brake is managed as a waterfowl sanctuary and access is restricted to the area immediately adjacent to the observation tower.
See also
References
External links
- Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge Шаблон:Webarchive - US Fish & Wildlife Service
Шаблон:Protected Areas of Louisiana Шаблон:National Wildlife Refuges of the United States
- Английская Википедия
- Protected areas of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
- National Wildlife Refuges in Louisiana
- Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana
- Landforms of Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
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