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Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge

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Address: c/o Santa Ana NWR
Rt 2, Box 202A
Alamo, TX 78516
Phone: 956-784-7500;
Fax: 956-787-8338;
Web: southwest.fws.gov/refuges/texas/lrgv.html
Established: 1979.
Location: 7 miles south of Alamo, Texas.
Facilities: Visitor center (at Santa Ana NWR).
Activities: Canoeing, hiking hunting, fishing, birdwatching.
Special Features: Not only do the Central and Mississippi flyways converge here at the southern tip of Texas, but the area is also the northernmost range for many bird species. Considered one of the most biologically diverse NWRs in the continental United States, the site represents 11 distinct biotic communities that are host or home to 1,100 types of plants, 700 vertebrate species (including 484 bird species), and more than 300 species of butterflies.
Habitats: 90,000 acres of coastal barrier islands, resacas (oxbow lakes), desert-like brushlands, riverside woodlands, and caliche hillsides. Still in an acquisition phase, the refuge will eventually encompass 132,500 acres.
Access: Portions of the refuge are open year round, from sunrise to sunset to foot traffic only.
Wild life: Two endangered cats: the ocelot and jaguarundi. Also provides habitat for speckled racer, plain chachalaca, green jay, great kiskadee, southern yellow bat, Kemp's Ridley turtle, white-tailed deer, and collared peccary.

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No references found	In the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas along the Mexican border, Laufer stumbled upon a natural butterfly park -- home to more species than all the states east of the Mississippi combined -- threatened with habitat destruction by the national security barrier authorized by the Bush administration and Congress. IN OTHER WORDS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) Since the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge was specifically created to allow the endangered ocelot and other species to migrate across the border, it is unlikely that the refuge will be able to approve the fence, said Nancy Brown, with the South Texas Refuge Complex, which includes the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Members of Congress question DHS waiver decision by Berndt, Carolyn / Nation's Cities Weekly In 1979, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (LRGVNWR) was established to implement a USFWS Land Protection Plan that calls for protection of 53,420 ha in the LRGV with the Rio Grande serving as the major corridor linking tracts of native and restored vegetation (USFWS 1985). Rodent communities of native woodland, replanted, and secondary ... by Sternberg, Mitchell A.; Judd, Frank W. / The Texas Journal of Science	lower house Lower Hutt Lower Jurassic Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge lower lateral bracing Lower Layer Protocol Lower Leg lower limb lower limit lower low water lower mantle Lower Mississippian Lower Moravian Lowland lower motor neuron lower motor neuron disease lower nephron nephrosis Lower Ordovician lower pair Lower Pennsylvanian Lower Permian lower pitch limit lower plate lower punch Lower Rhine Lowland lower rib height Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge Lower Saxony lower semicontinuous function lower set lower sideband Lower Silesian Operation of 1945 Lower Silurian Lower Slobbovia Lower Sonoran life zone Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge Lower Thracian Lowland lower transit Lower Triassic Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park Lower White River Museum State Park lower yield point lower-sideband upconverter Lowercase Letter Lowery, Joseph E. Lowest Atmospheric Layer lowest common denominator lowest common multiple lowest qualified bidder lowest required radiating power lowest responsible bidder lowest responsive bid	Lower respiratory lower respiratory infection lower respiratory infection lower respiratory infection Lower respiratory infections Lower Respiratory Lymph Node lower respiratory tract lower respiratory tract lower respiratory tract lower respiratory tract lower respiratory tract Lower Respiratory Tract Disease Lower Respiratory Tract Illness Lower Respiratory Tract Illnesses with Wheezing Lower respiratory tract infection Lower respiratory tract infection Lower Respiratory Tract Infections lower respiratory tract smear Lower Rhine Lower Rhine (department) Lower Rhine (department) Lower Rhine Lowland lower rib height Lower Richland Church of Christ lower ridge slope Lower Right Lower Right Extremity Lower Right Quadrant Lower Rio Grande Valley Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge Lower Rio Grande Water Users Organization Lower Riser Package Lower Risk Lower Risk Premium Account Lower Risk/least concern Lower San Joaquin River Lower Santa Ana River Basin Lower Savannah Council of Governments Lower Saxon dialect Lower Saxon dialect Lower Saxon language Lower Saxon language Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Lower School Lower School Lower School Parents' Association lower schools Lower Secondary Education Development Project Lower Secondary Programme Lower secondary school Lower secondary school Lower secondary school Lower Segment Caesarian Section Lower Semi-Continuous Function lower semicontinuous function Lower set Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve lower shank lower shank

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In the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas along the Mexican border, Laufer stumbled upon a natural butterfly park -- home to more species than all the states east of the Mississippi combined -- threatened with habitat destruction by the national security barrier authorized by the Bush administration and Congress.

IN OTHER WORDS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

Since the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge was specifically created to allow the endangered ocelot and other species to migrate across the border, it is unlikely that the refuge will be able to approve the fence, said Nancy Brown, with the South Texas Refuge Complex, which includes the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Members of Congress question DHS waiver decision by Berndt, Carolyn / Nation's Cities Weekly

In 1979, the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (LRGVNWR) was established to implement a USFWS Land Protection Plan that calls for protection of 53,420 ha in the LRGV with the Rio Grande serving as the major corridor linking tracts of native and restored vegetation (USFWS 1985).

Rodent communities of native woodland, replanted, and secondary ... by Sternberg, Mitchell A.; Judd, Frank W. / The Texas Journal of Science

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