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A Refuge Update - July 2017

7/19/2017

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Below are some general updates about Rockefeller Refuge:
  • Price Lake Road (South side) remains closed indefinitely. We are still unable to get gravel trucks down the road to begin with repairs. 
  • Shrimp Season was closed by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission on July 14, therefore the allotted amount of Shrimp a user can have on Rockefeller is 10 pounds. 
  • Levee construction is still ongoing throughout the Refuge. Be cautious of barges and equipment in the property line canal to Superior canal. 

​Please continue to check here for more updates or the homepage also has our updates. 
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Tropical Storm Cindy Update - Half of Price Lake Road Reopens

6/29/2017

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Although Rockefeller received some damages from the tropical storm last week, most of these repairs have been completed by refuge staff. One area that still has water is the southside of Price Lake Road. Friday, June 30, 2017, the northern part of the road will reopen to the public at sunrise.

The road beyond the Bird Observatory/Fishing Piers is still covered with water and will remained closed indefinitely. 
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Volunteers Needed for Bird Surveys

4/7/2016

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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge and Audubon Louisiana are teaming up on a Beach Nesting Survey and they are looking for volunteers to help with the study. 


The research staff is looking for anyone with spare time to walk beaches with them, looking for various shorebirds. Any volunteer should be able bodied enough to walk between 3-6 miles a day. Past experience with identifying birds helps, but the staff is willing to train anyone that can perform observations for the project. 


The Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge has reasonably high densities Wilson’s Plovers along its shoreline, and this site is relatively free of human disturbance. Understanding nesting success in this “natural” environment (without human or cattle disturbance pressures) would serve as a useful control site for interpreting nesting success at other sites in southwestern Louisiana where Audubon Louisiana will be working in 2016.


Project activities would include:
  • Locating and marking nests with a GPS and small wooden popsicle sticks. Nests will be revisited every 2-5 days so that we can track their fate (success vs failure), and causes of failure.
  • We will capture and band adult and nestling Least Terns and Wilson’s Plovers to assess their survivorship, as well as for evaluating within- and between-year movements.
  • Visiting most beaches along Cameron Parish looking for birds, keeping counts: Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Rutherford Beach, Holly Beach, and Broussard Beach.
  • Identifying birds from distances with binoculars or scopes. 

Anyone interested in volunteering, contact the Rockefeller Office: 337-491-2593 or (412) 997-3017.
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The Refuge

3/31/2016

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This will be the first blog entry for Rockefeller Refuge, but hopefully many more will come after.

Anyone familiar with Southwest Louisiana understands the ecological significance this area provides for species like migratory birds. The history places like Rockefeller have when it resurrecting the American Alligator from a species of concern, to a commodity. And the communal feelings of living in the great outdoors but knowing that your neighbors, although far off, will come help you with anything, including the boiled crabs you caught earlier in the day.

There isn't a day we don't capture something amazing in the outdoors, primarily through photo and video but also through our research and data collection. We are always looking forward to the next adventure, the next piece of data that allows us to come upon another realization of Louisiana's outdoors.

This blog will be a space for the refuge to share some of those moments.

-Gabe
​Rockefeller Public Information Officer

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Gabe Giffin has worked for the Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries for five years. He is passionate about the outdoors and sharing it with anyone that calls Louisiana home. Currently, he is assisting Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge with their efforts to recreate the magical experience of visiting Rockefeller.
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