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The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, on the banks of the San Joaquin River, is home to a unique assemblage of plants, including native telegraph weed (foreground) and endemic naked stem buckwheat (reddish plants in the background). Photo by Sarah Anne Bardwell. Botany Taking Refuge by Matthew Bettelheim January 1, 2005 Share This:
Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
Resources. Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge: Free docent-led tours begin at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of every month, year-round. No reservations required. Information and directions.
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This refuge is closed to the public. Docent-led walks are available the second Saturday of every month. Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is the only national wildlife refuge in the country established to protect endangered plants and insects - the Antioch Dunes evening primrose, the Contra Costa wallfl ower, and the Lange's metalmark butterfly. Created in 1980, the 55-acre refuge was.
Restoring Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge Bay Nature
The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is located in the San Francisco Bay-Delta area, along the southern shore of the San Joaquin River. It was the first national wildlife refuge in the country established to protect endangered plants and insects.
What's Living in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge? Plenty
Discover nature. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers guided tours of the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, 501 Fulton Shipyard Road, at 10 a.m. the second Saturday of every month. Free.
Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
Now it is the smallest and easternmost unit of the San Francisco National Wildlife Refuge Complex, and it's now the site of an ambitious experiment in ecosystem restoration. The diminutive characters at the center of this ecological drama are the Antioch Dunes evening primrose, a short-lived perennial plant with large white flowers; the.
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The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Dan Rademacher) About 50 volunteers were allowed into the refuge on July 25 to spend the morning searching and cataloguing species of all kinds, as part of a citizen science bioblitz sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nerds for Nature.
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"The Antioch Dunes is the only national wildlife refuge in the country established to protect endangered plants and insects," says Hugh Harvey, a member and organizer for the Mount Diablo.
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Don Edwards San Francisco Bay is one of three dozen national wildlife refuges managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in California. The refuges are land and water set aside for fish, wildlife, plants and, ultimately, people. Please join us on a brief photographic tour of a few of them.
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Established in 1980, the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is the first national wildlife refuge specifically designated to protect endangered plants and insects.
What's Living in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge? Plenty
Though the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge remains closed to the public for unsupervised visits, it still offers docent-led tours at 501 Fulton Shipyard Road in Antioch every second Saturday at 10 AM, if there's no adverse weather.
Visitors stand atop newly dredged river sand at the Antioch Dunes
Local News | Around East County: Antioch Dunes wildlife refuge being restored It may take a couple of decades of sand deposits to fully bring back ecosystem, specialist says By Roni Gehlke.
Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is located in the San Francisco Bay-Delta area, along the southern shore of the San Joaquin River. It was the first national wildlife refuge in the country established to protect endangered plants and insects.