Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge Nwr Comprehensive Conservation Plan

Author : U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Interior
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781506028538
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the floodplain of the Upper St. Johns River Basin in Brevard County in east-central Florida in Titusville, St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is managed as a satellite refuge of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex (Figure 1). St. Johns NWR is managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, which includes more than 550 national wildlife refuges and related units and over 150 million acres. The refuge is unstaffed and is composed of two management units: the 2,016-acre Bee Line Unit (Figure 2), and the 4,241-acre State Road (SR) 50 Unit, which includes the 31-acre Fox Lake Tract. At the SR 50 Unit (Figure 3), the Service manages most of the lands and waters within the acquisition boundary. However, this is not the case at the Bee Line Unit (Figure 4), where a number of tracts are privately held. Those properties of the Bee Line Unit that are not part of the larger contiguous portion (which are generally located to the south of the main portion of this unit) are commonly referred to as the Checkerboard and total roughly 1,116 acres (Figure 5), where the Service owns and manages roughly 507 acres. St. Johns NWR's management boundary represents 6,257 acres while the its approved acquisition boundary represents 6,757 acres.