Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is a biological research center in Maryland. It is one of 17 research centers in the United States run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The center is located on the grounds of the 12,841-acre (51.97 km2) Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This is the only National Wildlife Refuge in the United States initially established to support wildlife research.
National Wildlife Visitor Center 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop Laurel, MD 20708
The research center hosts a wide variety of wildlife.
Patuxent National Wildlife Visitor Center entrance sign
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of extraterrestrial planets and moons based on data from U.S. space probes.
USGS headquarters in Reston, Virginia
A USGS gauging station on the Scioto River below O'Shaughnessy Dam near Dublin, Ohio
Clarence King, first director of the USGS from 1879 to 1881