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This National Wildlife Refuge is
also extremely close to an urban area, although the area is quite
larger. Downtown New York City is a mere twenty-five miles from
this site, a fact that would shock anyone enveloped in its interior.
Several rare and endangered species exist comfortably here, a
place that gives an urban population a glimpse and resulting appreciation
for the natural world around them. More than two hundred species
of birds and a rich population of marshland amphibians and turtles
are also protected.
Several abandoned plots of land that contained large homes have
been cleared and reseeded in an effort to restore the land. Come
see the progress mother nature is making. |
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