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Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge

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Coordinates:24°43′N81°38′W / 24.717°N 81.633°W /24.717; -81.633

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Protected area in Monroe County, Florida, United States

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Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
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Location	Monroe County, Florida, United States
Nearest city	Key West, Florida
Coordinates	24°43′N81°38′W / 24.717°N 81.633°W /24.717; -81.633
Area	6,207 acres (25 km²) land, 123,980 acres (502 km²) water
Established	October 27, 1938
Governing body	US Fish & Wildlife Service
Website	Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge

TheGreat White Heron National Wildlife Refuge is part of theUnited States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in a region known as the 'Backcountry', which reaches from north ofMarathon to north ofKey West.

Overview

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The refuge is located along the north side of the Keys in that area that border theGulf of Mexico. The 130,187 acre (527 km²) refuge (6,207 acres (25 km²) of it land, 123,980 (502 km²) water) was established on October 27, 1938, as a haven forgreat white herons,migratory birds, and otherwildlife Approximately 1,900 acres (8 km²) are designated as awilderness area. The refuge is administered as part of theNational Key Deer Refuge.

Flora

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The islands are covered mostly withmangroves, though some of the larger islands containpine rockland andtropical hardwood hammock habitats. One of the few remaining breeding colonies of theMiami blue is in the refuge.

Fauna

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Hawksbill sea turtles have been known to feed in the refuge. Also,loggerhead andgreen sea turtles nest here.

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Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge

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Areas	Florida Bay Dry Tortugas National Park Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary National Key Deer Refuge John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Biscayne Bay Biscayne National Park Key West National Wildlife Refuge Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge Florida Reef
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Federal level

National Estuarine Research Reserves	Apalachicola Guana Tolomato Matanzas Rookery Bay
National Fish Hatcheries	Welaka
National Forests	Apalachicola Choctawhatchee Ocala Osceola
National Marine Sanctuaries	Florida Keys
National Memorials	De Soto Fort Caroline
National Monuments	Castillo de San Marcos Fort Matanzas
National Parks	Biscayne Dry Tortugas Everglades
National Preserves	Big Cypress Timucuan Ecological
National Seashores	Canaveral Gulf Islands
National Trails	Florida
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Loxahatchee River Wekiva River
National Wildlife Refuges	Archie Carr Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Caloosahatchee Cedar Keys Chassahowitzka Crocodile Lake Crystal River Three Sisters Springs Egmont Key Florida Panther Great White Heron Hobe Sound Island Bay J.N. 'Ding' Darling Key West Lake Wales Ridge Lake Woodruff Lower Suwannee Matlacha Pass Merritt Island National Key Deer Okefenokee Passage Key Pelican Island Pine Island Pinellas St. Johns St. Marks St. Vincent Ten Thousand Islands
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State level

Parks	Amelia Island Anastasia Avalon Bahia Honda Bald Point Big Lagoon Big Shoals Big Talbot Island Bill Baggs Cape Florida Bulow Creek Caladesi Island Camp Helen Cayo Costa Collier–Seminole Colt Creek Curry Hammock Delnor-Wiggins Pass Devil's Millhopper Don Pedro Island Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson Eden Gardens Egmont Key Falling Waters Faver-Dykes Florida Caverns Fort Clinch Fort Cooper Fort George Island Fort Pierce Inlet Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou Gasparilla Island George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier Grayton Beach Henderson Beach Highlands Hammock Honeymoon Island Hontoon Island Hugh Taylor Birch John D. MacArthur Beach John Pennekamp Coral Reef Jonathan Dickinson Little Talbot Island Long Key Lovers Key Mike Roess Gold Head Branch North Peninsula O'Leno Oscar Scherer Perdido Key Price's Scrub Sebastian Inlet Skyway Fishing Pier St. Andrews St. George Island St. Marks River St. Joseph Peninsula Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center Stump Pass Beach Tomoka Torreya Windley Key Fossil Reef
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Recreation areas	Dead Lakes Gamble Rogers Memorial
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State forests	Belmore Big Shoals Blackwater River Carl Duval Moore Cary Charles H. Bronson Cottage Hill Deep Creek Etoniah Creek Four Creeks Goethe Holopaw Indian Lake Jennings John M. Bethea Lake George Lake Talquin Lake Wales Ridge Little Big Econ Matanzas Myakka Okaloacoochee Slough Picayune Strand Pine Log Point Washington Ralph E. Simmons Memorial Ross Prairie Seminole Tate's Hell Tiger Bay Twin Rivers Wakulla Watson Island Welaka Withlacoochee

Local level

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