Once a fish hatchery, this 190- acre parcel has been set aside and managed for wildlife, especially game animals enjoyed by hunters from Maryland and surrounding states. What To See Beavers, as industrious as their reputation, have built several large dams along a branch of Cabin John Creek. The resulting ponds make excellent wood duck habitat.
Visitors can watch the cooperative existence of beavers and wood ducks.
Bobwhite quail and rabbits frequent the abandoned fields, farm fields and wood edges. The variety of habitats maintained here attract a host of bird species, counted each year by the Maryland Ornithological Society during the annual Christmas bird counts. What To Do Hunters can take advantage of the deliberate efforts of wildlife biologists to maintain the area as ideal game habitat, check out a map of the area . Many game species, like white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbits and bobwhite quail, prefer to live on wooded edges and edges between younger and older vegetation stages. Earleville has farm fields, old fields, strips of short grass and long grass, all designed to make the area irresistible to these species.