U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Offers DVD Tour of America’s National Wildlife Refuges

This holiday season, stop by the “Sign of the Flying Goose” for the finest in gift-giving, featuring the beauty and majesty of America’s great outdoors and its wild creatures and wild places.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering three low-cost video tours of select national wildlife refuges as DVD “stocking-stuffers” sure to please everyone on your holiday list. You can find them here at the “Sign of the Flying Goose,” emblem of America’s National Wildlife Refuges. It’s the road marker that Rachel Carson, biologist and author whose birth centennial America celebrates in 2007, wrote of nearly six decades ago:

If you travel much in the wilder sections of our country, sooner or later you are likely to meet the sign of the flying goose—the emblem of the national wildlife refuges. You may meet it by the side of the road crossing miles of flat prairie in the Middle West, or in the hot deserts of the Southwest. You may meet it by some mountain lake, or as you push your boat through the winding salty creeks of a coastal marsh. It means that the land behind the sign has been dedicated by the American people to preserving, for themselves and for their children, as much of our native wildlife as can be retained along with our modern civilization.

And now, the spectacular scenery and amazing creatures of tropical beaches and barrier islands, of Alaskan tundra and big city backwaters, are brought to you by the Service in DVD format. “America’s Wildest Places” is a three-volume collection of armchair tours of many refuges featuring the photography of some of America’s finest wildlife videographers.

• In Volume 1, you’ll thrill to the takeoff of endangered whooping cranes at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas … marvel at the profusion of ducks and other waterbirds at Wisconsin’s Horicon Refuge … silently track the stealthy and secretive red wolf in the swampy tracks of Pocosin Lakes Refuge in North Carolina—a video tour of eight National Wildlife Refuges, in all.
• Volume 2 takes you to New Mexico’s annual fall crane extravaganza at Bosque del Apache Refuge … in Mississippi, at Noxubee Refuge, you’ll be serenaded amid the sights and sounds of languid southern bayous … and in Montana’s big sky country, you’ll run on prairie hillsides with the lumbering, shaggy creatures of the National Bison Range—six refuge tours, total, hosted by none-other than Teddy Roosevelt himself!
• And in Volume 3, from Vermont’s watery Missisquoi Refuge to the parched deserts of Cabeza Prieta refuge along the Arizona-Mexico border, you’ll explore the diversity of wildlife habitats that have been protected by Americans, making the United States the envy of the world for its Refuge System—six refuge tours, from Alaska to Massachusetts.

Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the “America’s Wildest Places” DVD collection can be ordered singly, for $6 apiece, or in sets for $18, at https://vcart.velocitypayment.com/fws/. Postage and handling is an additional $2.50, regardless of the number of DVDs ordered. Proceeds from DVD sales help recoup the cost of materials and production.