Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge is a 37 -square-kilometer nature reserve, which consists of several individual areas along the south coast of the U.S. state of Maine. The nature reserve was established in 1966 and is named in honor of the biologist and non-fiction author Rachel Carson, who did with her ​​book Silent Spring, among other things, the impact of DDT attention to birds.

The nature reserve has several different habitats, including a march, dunes, sandy beach, a influenced by the tidal river estuary and rocky seashore. Among the protected species that breed in this conservation area, including the Yellow-footed plover and roseate tern the