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25 January 2021: Image of the day: This male red-bellied woodpecker, seen here paused between bursts of pecking at the bark surface, was photographed by Trustee Leor Veleanu.
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21 January 2021: Throwback to a snowy winter day in 2018 on the Refuge boundary trail.
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18 January 2021: Image of the day: This spotted wintergreen is a perennial, evergreen herb found in mixed woodlands in the eastern US. It is an understory species with flowers appearing in late July to early August.
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14 January 2021: Throwback to many years ago and this sketch of an otter fishing by Refuge co-founder Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci. #tbt #ThrowbackThursday #UWRHistory #UnexpectedWildlifeRefuge
11 January 2021: Image of the day: The autumn meadowhawk, a late season dragonfly, flies later in the fall season than any other species and has been observed into as late as the end of December.
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8 January 2021: Unexpected Wildlife Refuge has joined a coalition of animal and environmental organizations calling on president-elect Joe Biden to take immediate action to confront the extinction crisis by signing an executive order that would overturn some of the damage caused by Trump's end-of-term "war on wildlife."
Trump's administration has acknowledged the need for monarch butterflies to be listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) but will not go through the process because there are 161 higher priority species it is looking at. Wolves have been delisted. Wolverines have been denied listing, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services defied a court order to create new plans for the conservation of the sage grouse by submitting documents that used the same wording and faulty claims that were rejected in 2019. These rule changes are but a fraction of the rollbacks rendered at the end of Trump's term.
The proposed executive order, ready for Biden to issue, would declare the extinction crisis a national emergency and give him the opportunity to act without Congressional approval under the National Emergencies Act. It would create national monuments protecting 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050, and it would call for all agencies to add climate change to their considerations for species protections under the ESA – a stark contrast to the current administration, which removed all mentions of climate change from the White House website shortly after Trump took office.
7 January 2021: Throwback to 2009 and this view of the sun rising beyond a snow covered field at the Refuge.*
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* In the long-term interests of the animals, Refuge policy no longer permits provision of artificial housing.
4 January 2021: Image of the day: This reindeer lichen, an important groundcover in woodland areas, is a principal winter food for deer. #UnexpectedWildlifeRefuge
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