Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
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.
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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.
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Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge established in 1980 to conserve habitat for three endangered species: Lange's metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei), Contra Costa wallflower (Erysimum capitatum angustatum) and Antioch Dunes evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides howellii). The refuge consists of 55 acres of.
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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.
What's Living in the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge? Plenty
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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.
Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
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
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.
Visitors stand atop newly dredged river sand at the Antioch Dunes
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.
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Dunes refuge is revived in Antioch / Refuge's return / Endangered
The Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge (ADNWR) was created by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1980 to protect the Lange's metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei). As described in a 2005 Bay Nature feature, the isolated dunes were fenced off from the public to protect the butterflies' fragile habitat.
Dredging up the past at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
Created in 1980, the 55-acre refuge was once part of a larger sand dune system that stretched two miles along the southern bank of the San Joaquin River east of the City of Antioch. The sand dunes were formed by ancient deposits of glacial sands carried downriver from the Sierra Nevada. Over thousands of years, ocean winds and bay tides slowly.
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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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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.