Protecting and Preserving Urban National Parks

Description

How National Parks in urban settings provide valuable refuges to wildlife: from water birds at Boston Harbor Islands to threatened bats at Rock Creek Park, and the contributions that monitoring by citizen scientists and NPS employees make to preserving them.

Duration

6 minutes, 3 seconds

Credit

NPS/Durham

Date Created

05/01/2018

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