Post by freedomrules3 on Apr 13, 2005 23:04:01 GMT -5
from their site:
"Welcome to Assateague Island National Seashore! We sincerely hope that your visit here is pleasant, rewarding and safe. In partnership with Assateague State Park and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, the National Park Service manages this 37 mile-long island to conserve the plants and animals that live here and to provide you a place for rest, relaxation and recreation.
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during a visit to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Shenandoah National Park described National Parks as places for recreation and re-creation. It's hard to find a better example of re-creation than a barrier island. On the wall in our headquarters is an 1866 nautical chart of Assateague Island. There is a little dot with the words "Ocean City" but no Ocean City Inlet. The island is one continuous, gently curving barrier to the waves and wind of the Atlantic Ocean. Between then and now, we humans have built walls to protect Ocean City and walls to keep the Ocean City Inlet open. The Assateague Island we know today is still a natural barrier island. It's also over a quarter of a mile farther inland than it was in 1866. The island has re-created itself in a different place.
The island is also a place for you to re-create yourself, if you so choose. It is a different place. In addition to wind, and surf, and sandy beach, there are salt marshes to explore, quiet bayside waters to canoe, and pine forests which are never completely quiet. The creatures and plants that live here have adapted to life on a moving island. They're different, too. By learning more about how they have adapted and how they live, you may, perhaps, learn some things that will make your life more enjoyable and rewarding. Certainly, a visit to the island is a respite from the busyness of our every-day business"
Oh my where to start, first off this is one of the few places that has Sika Deer in the United States. Other parts of Maryland's Eastern Shore have them but Assateague has them a plenty. They also have Whitetail Deer but have a 3 point per side restriction, shame huh .
Waterfowl is also abound. And of coarse the wild ponies.
Being a barrier island it is a very unique place to hunt, with lagoons everywhere and the scenery it is worth the trip there. I hunted there this year for the first time in 15 years. Seems we always take for granted things which are right in front of our faces. not an arrow was fired but memories were made. Next year i will be ahead of the curve since firearm season was held before i went there. A truly great place and experience to hunt. I havent even got the time to think about it all at once 8-)sooo heres a few pics and a link
www.nps.gov/asis/hunting.htm
"Welcome to Assateague Island National Seashore! We sincerely hope that your visit here is pleasant, rewarding and safe. In partnership with Assateague State Park and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, the National Park Service manages this 37 mile-long island to conserve the plants and animals that live here and to provide you a place for rest, relaxation and recreation.
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during a visit to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Shenandoah National Park described National Parks as places for recreation and re-creation. It's hard to find a better example of re-creation than a barrier island. On the wall in our headquarters is an 1866 nautical chart of Assateague Island. There is a little dot with the words "Ocean City" but no Ocean City Inlet. The island is one continuous, gently curving barrier to the waves and wind of the Atlantic Ocean. Between then and now, we humans have built walls to protect Ocean City and walls to keep the Ocean City Inlet open. The Assateague Island we know today is still a natural barrier island. It's also over a quarter of a mile farther inland than it was in 1866. The island has re-created itself in a different place.
The island is also a place for you to re-create yourself, if you so choose. It is a different place. In addition to wind, and surf, and sandy beach, there are salt marshes to explore, quiet bayside waters to canoe, and pine forests which are never completely quiet. The creatures and plants that live here have adapted to life on a moving island. They're different, too. By learning more about how they have adapted and how they live, you may, perhaps, learn some things that will make your life more enjoyable and rewarding. Certainly, a visit to the island is a respite from the busyness of our every-day business"
Oh my where to start, first off this is one of the few places that has Sika Deer in the United States. Other parts of Maryland's Eastern Shore have them but Assateague has them a plenty. They also have Whitetail Deer but have a 3 point per side restriction, shame huh .
Waterfowl is also abound. And of coarse the wild ponies.
Being a barrier island it is a very unique place to hunt, with lagoons everywhere and the scenery it is worth the trip there. I hunted there this year for the first time in 15 years. Seems we always take for granted things which are right in front of our faces. not an arrow was fired but memories were made. Next year i will be ahead of the curve since firearm season was held before i went there. A truly great place and experience to hunt. I havent even got the time to think about it all at once 8-)sooo heres a few pics and a link
www.nps.gov/asis/hunting.htm
