Pelican Island, located in the Indian River Lagoon, was designated as America's first national wildlife refuge in 1903. The island serves as a crucial nesting habitat for brown pelicans and over ...

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt’s executive order designated the island as the nation’s first national wildlife refuge for the protection of nesting birds. Pelican Island was established ...

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Pelican Island, located in the Indian River Lagoon, was designated as America's first national wildlife refuge in 1903. The island serves as a crucial nesting habitat for brown pelicans and over 130 ...

Roosevelt signed the executive order, making Pelican Island the first federal bird reserve, the forerunner to the national wildlife refuge system. Paul Kroegel was hired as the first national ...

West Liberty University biology students are working to restore the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge on Wheeling ...

the J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island in Florida. Darling, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Des Moines Register, helped prevent the land the refuge sits on ...