For example, there are many different kinds of MPAs in U.S. waters including national parks, wildlife refuges, monuments and marine sanctuaries, fisheries closures, critical habitat, habitat areas of particular concern, state parks, conservation areas, estuarine reserves and preserves, and numerous others.
Some 30 species of ticks occur in Colorado. Table 1 lists the more common ones. Hard-shelled ticks (Ixodidae family) predominate and are represented by such familiar species as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, American dog tick and brown dog tick.
(c.) American Dog Tick. (a.) Blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks, are about the size of a poppy or sesame seed and commonly occur in the northeastern and upper midwestern United States. They can transmit a number of diseases including lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis and tick paralysis.