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Hirundo Wildlife Refuge

Wildlife refuge in Maine, USA

Summary

Wildlife refuge in Maine, USA

Field	Value
name	Hirundo Wildlife Refuge
iucn_category	IV
photo	File:HirundoWildlifeRefugee.jpg
photo_caption	The Pushaw Stream in Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in April 2018.
map	Maine
map_alt	Map showing location of Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Maine
location	Penobscot County, Maine, United States
nearest_city	Old Town, ME
coordinates
area	2402 acre
established	1965
governing_body	University of Maine
url	http://www.hirundomaine.org/

Hirundo Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge covering 2402 acre along Pushaw and Dead streams in Old Town, in Penobscot County, Maine. The refuge was founded in 1965 by Oliver Larouche from his parents' 3 acre camp. The refuge was donated as a trust to the University of Maine in 1983 by Larouche and his wife, June. The refuge is a living laboratory where current and past scientific research has been conducted. Hirundo is just downstream of Pushaw Lake and includes part of the Caribou Bog wetland complex, which is one of the largest wetlands in Maine. The refuge is also the site of the National Register-listed Hirundo Site, a prehistoric Native American habitation site with evidence of 4,500 years of occupation.

Recreation

The refuge is open to the public daily from 9:00 am until sunset, and there is no fee for admission. There are opportunities for canoeing, geocaching, and photography in the refuge. There are 7 mi of hiking trails, including three interpretive trails with self-guiding brochures. Snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are permitted in winter. Hunting, trapping, smoking, fires, pets, bicycles, motorized vehicles, digging, and picking plants or rocks are not permitted.

Archaeology

The Hirundo archaeological site is one of the first places in eastern Maine that provided evidence of human habitation during the so-called Vergennes Phase (c. 3000 BCE), although this identification was tenuous because of the weakly stratified nature of the site. The site was discovered by amateurs in 1971, and first professionally excavated in 1972–75. Finds at the site included stone projectile points and tools, including plummets (weights) probably used for fishing.

References

"Hirundo Wildlife Refuge". Hirundo Wildlife Refuge.
Sarnacki, Aislinn. (April 11, 2012). "Naturalists unearth Hirundo Wildlife Refuge, ‘an unknown gem’". Bangor Daily News.
"Archaeology". Hirundo Wildlife Refuge.
Cox, Steven. (Fall 1991). "Site 95.20 and the Vergennes Phase in Maine". Archaeology of Eastern North America.
The site was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1975.{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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