Which 196 wildlife refuge is located in a hamlet on the South Shore of Long Island?
Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge
Title: Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge is located on the south shore of Long Island and is one of the undeveloped estuary systems on Long Island.  In 1947, Maurice Wertheim donated 2000 acre on eastern Long Island to the United States government; the donated land subsequently became the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge.  The refuge's purpose is to protect the Carmans River Estuary for migratory birds.  Wertheim hosts a variety of habitats including oak-pine woodlands, grasslands, and fresh, brackish and salt water wetlands.  These habitats attract and support many types of wildlife including white-tailed deer, osprey, muskrat, fox, turtles, frogs and fish.  The refuge also serves as a haven for waterfowl, shorebirds, raptors, and songbirds.
Title: Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Nomans Land Island Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located on Nomans Land, a 640 acre island off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.  It is part of the town of Chilmark, in Dukes County.  The Island is 1.6 mi long east to west, and about 1 mi north to south.  Nomans Land Island was used for aerial gunnery by the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1996.  The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has managed an "overlay" refuge on the Eastern third of the Island under a Joint Management Agreement between the Department of the Interior and Department of the Navy since 1975.  Following an extensive surface clearance of ordnance in 1997 and 1998, the Island was transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to become Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge.  It was established " . . . for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds" under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.
Title: Desert National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in northwestern Clark and southwestern Lincoln counties, with much of its land area lying within the southeastern section of the Nevada Test and Training Range.  The Desert NWR, created on May 20, 1936, is the largest wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states of the United States, encompassing 1.615 e6acre of the Mojave Desert in the southern part of Nevada.  This Range is part of the larger Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which includes the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge.
Title: Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located in the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in the U.S. state of Vermont.  The refuge is in Franklin County in the northwest corner of the state near the International Boundary with Canada.  It is the only National Wildlife Refuge located entirely in Vermont (Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge is partly in Vermont and three other states), and is administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Title: Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge, in Amagansett, New York, is located along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on Long Island's south fork.  The refuge is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
Title: Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, located at the southern end of the Pahranagat Valley and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  It is situated 90 mi north of Las Vegas, Nevada in Lincoln County, Nevada.  The 5380 acre refuge was created on August 16, 1963 and is part of the larger Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which also includes the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, and the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Title: Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a 31533 acre National Wildlife Refuge located in the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Montana.  The refuge is part of the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex which also includes the Northeast Montana Wetland Management District (WMD) and Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge.  Medicine Lake is from the Assiniboine description of the lake, "Bda wauka" (medicine water).  The refuge was established in 1935 to protect habitat for various wildlife and especially migratory birds.  The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Title: Islip (hamlet), New York
Passage: Islip ( is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) that lies within the much larger Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York.  Located on the South Shore of Long Island, the CDP had a population of 18,869 at the time of the 2010 census, a decline of 8% from the 2000 census.
Title: Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge is located in the hamlet of Islip, New York, on the south shore of Long Island.  It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.  The refuge consists of 196 acre bordering the Great South Bay, separated from the Atlantic Ocean only by Fire Island.  Situated in a heavily developed urban area along Champlin Creek, the refuge is an oasis for many species of migratory birds and waterfowl.
Title: Sayville National Wildlife Refuge
Passage: The Sayville National Wildlife Refuge is a 127 acre National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located in West Sayville, New York about 2 mi inland from the Great South Bay.  Sayville NWR is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a sub-unit of Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge and part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.  It is the only land-locked refuge in the complex.
Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge Islip (hamlet), New York