title: Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge
text: # Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge
  
  Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County, California. The refuge is one of four units of the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex for California condors.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The Blue Ridge National Wildlife Refuge is part of the cooperatively-managed Blue Ridge Wildlife Habitat Area, an 11,000-acre (45 $km^2)$ area set aside as an important roosting area located close to historic nesting and foraging habitat for the California condor. This refuge consists of almost 900 acres (3.6 $km^2)$ of coniferous forests dominated by Ponderosa Pine and Incense Cedar.
  
  As of July 2014, there is a total population of 437 condors living in sites in California, Baja California and Arizona. This includes a wild population of 232 and a captive population of 205. 68 free-flying Condors are managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service in Southern California.
  
  ### Owners
  
  There are three principal private owners, and four public owners:
  
  * U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  * Bureau of Land Management
  * USDA Forest Service
  * California Department of Fish and Game.
  