Local Wildlife Refuge Featured on PBS

Mountain Lake PBS’s newest Mountain Lake Journal segment takes us inside the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation Center (www.adirondackwildlife.org) in in Wilmington, New York.

The Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehabilitation Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of animals and wildlife education. They are available to do presentations for schools, churches and other organizations. (Source: www.essexonlakechamplain.com)

Helen, a Barred Owl used for educational purposes at the Refuge. (Credit: Eve Ticknor) — Helen, a Barred Owl at Wildlife Refuge. (Credit: Eve Ticknor)

In this fascinating 4.5 minute video co-owners Stephen and Wendy Hall interact with wolves, raptors, foxes, and other wild creatures that we rarely experience up close. Paul Larson concludes the segment by sharing Wendy’s hope that visitors to the refuge will “leave with an increased awareness about the environment… [It is] important to improve the habitat so that they can live. They can simply exist instead of losing so many species.”

Wildlife Refuge in the News

If you missed it, WPTZ aired an excellent segment on the refuge last fall:

Wolves are often labeled as vicious creatures, willing and able to attack anything that threatens the pack. But that’s the stereotype the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge and Rehab Center is trying to change. “Wolves are terrified of people and that’s something people don’t get thanks to Hollywood movies,” said Stephen Hall, co-owner of the center. (Source: WPTZ)

Click here to watch the video.

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