Living near a Wetlands Area

@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
September 5, 2015 9:39am CST
I live near the Wetlands Management area which preserves American's fish, wildlife and plants. Where I am they have been actively involved in the Trumpeter Swan Recovery Program they were endangered but not any longer. We also have lots of ducks and bald eagles. Also we have rock outcroppings and are trying to restore the tallgrass prairie. There are a lot of prairie potholes where waterfowl can feed. We have numerous places to fish in the area and we see lots of deer, wild turkeys, prairie dogs, bunny rabbits and all kind of animals.
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@Tydiakat (43)
• United States
5 Sep 15
O.o id love to live there...all we get around here is lots of bluebonnets lol
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
5 Sep 15
bluebonnets We see lots of different things here but I don't think I have ever seen bluebonnets around here.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
5 Sep 15
@Tydiakat OH no visitors trampling on the bluebonnets would be bad enough but hate those traffic jams and people acting stupid taking their pictures.
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• United States
5 Sep 15
@Marcyaz it would be nice... but when the bluebonnets bloom...in come loads and loads of people trampling them to take pictures and traffic jams in our small town
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• United States
6 Jan 16
Oh that sounds so lovely! What region of the U.S. is this in?
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
8 Jan 16
@buttheadface932 I am in Minnesota near the Iowa border in a small farming town although I am not a farmer nor do I live on a farm. The wildlife is abundant around here.
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• United States
9 Jan 16
@Marcyaz Wow!! So lucky! Seems like an obscure, mysterious town with a beautiful landscape
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Jan 16
@buttheadface932 Not many people have heard of this town even though it is the county seat of this county and there are like 6 towns I believe with a Total Population of all the towns at 12,000 people so it is very small. We live in the country and have fields near us with the closest neighbor being about one mile away. This town the county seat only has 4500 people but they have had a hotel that is building here and also a company bought an abandoned restaurant and they will be redecorating it and opening it up. They are trying to attract more businesses to the area and are going to have some new housing coming soon.
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@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
9 Sep 15
It is interesting to hear that you live near Wetlands which preserves fish, animals and flora and fauna. We don't get to see swans or ducks in our area. Eagles have slowly perished because cities have become like concrete jungle and greenery is no longer there. High trees are numbered, where eagle generally visit. I understand that tall grass prairie presents a beautiful view around you. You are lucky that you get to see lots of animals in your vicinity.
@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
9 Sep 15
I am grateful to live here and see all different kinds of wildlife, the grass prairie is different also. I have seen Eagles in Arizona, Oklahoma and Californa and here in Minnesota.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
10 Sep 15
@dpk262006 It is amazing to see all these things nature has to show us.
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@dpk262006 (58678)
• Delhi, India
10 Sep 15
@Marcyaz - You are indeed lucky that you live near nature and get an opportunity to see eagles.
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
5 Sep 15
Sounds like a very dreamy place to live..my type of calmness..I tend to come and bring brownies for all whenever i visit..
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
6 Sep 15
Come on down and bring those brownies with you Rosekitty and be greeted by the dogs and cats, turtles, deer, turkeys all those in the area you would see as we go around the area showing you things of interest.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
7 Sep 15
@Rosekitty I'll try to hold off sweeping you until after I eat my brownie...
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
6 Sep 15
@Marcyaz magic carpet on the way..don't sweep me with your broom
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• United States
5 Sep 15
It really is a beautiful place you live Marcy. It is great that that dept works on preserving the natural assets. It is important for the wildlife.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
5 Sep 15
Thanks Ocean, the Wetlands do preserve and maintain the natural assets near here. It is fun to see the birds up in the air, the wildlife on the ground, even the ones underground that pop their heads up every so often.
• Makati, Philippines
5 Sep 15
Living in wetland areas? I'm not sure. If you can fish there for free then its ok to me living there HAHA just kidding. Its kinda cool, why not? :D
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
5 Sep 15
There are lots of fishing around here but you do have to pay a small fee for a license to fish at the lakes here. Had some photos of some lakes but not able to find them right now but did find one of the turtle in the road.
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@loki1982 (780)
• Dallas, Texas
5 Sep 15
That is awesome. I would love to live near an area that has that much wildlife. Most of my photography centers around nature and wild life so this was be awesome.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
5 Sep 15
It is awesome as we see all kinds of wildlife in this area. We try to take photos when we can like the other day a wild turkey was walking in the road but by the time I got my camera ready to take the photo he was in tall grass and you could hardly see him in the photo.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
13 Sep 15
That is the right thing to do for these animals we have here. Especially the bald Eagle. We need more of this in our country. America has become too much with consumption. We need to stop killing all those animals.
@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
7 Sep 15
How wonderful for you to be so close to nature.
@wetnosedogs (1533)
• United States
6 Sep 15
It sounds calm and refreshing.
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• Tel Aviv, Israel
5 Sep 15
cool
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