7 Notes on Visiting St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge

Read the full post at - 7 Notes on Visiting St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge For years, my family has vacationed on St. George Island in the Florida panhandle. And every year, I’d look at the map and see this big, undeveloped island just to the west of Little St. George – St. Vincent Island. No roads. No houses. No bridge. I always wanted to go. But the logistics seemed tricky, and there’s not a lot of good information on the Internet about actually visiting. This summer, I finally figured it out and went. Here’s what I found. St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge is a ~12,500 acre National Wildlife Refuge established in 1968. It’s entirely owned by the U.S. Government with zero development. It’s home to migratory birds, gopher tortoises, sea turtles, sambar deer (from Southeast Asia – more on that in a minute), and most importantly, endangered red wolves. Red wolves are America’s other wolf. They once ranged across the entire Southeast into central Texas, before being hunted,…

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