 North America Habitat
After leaving Bear Country, the train enters a replica of a
North American temperate forest: four acres of quiet oaks and conifers dominated by a twisting, tumbling waterfall crashing down a
precipitous slope into the Bird Refuge, aerating those still waters.
The train crosses the foaming waters at the foot of the falls on an 80-foot-long trestle.
We plan to place truckloads of large boulders at our proposed waterfall site. We will have a natural-looking cascading falls.
Next to the falls will be a flight cage for our golden eagles. It will be made of virtually invisible nylon netting
draped from existing trees and camouflaged poles. The eagles will be free to fly from tree to tree.
Then the train passes an open meadow which will bloom each spring with native wildflowers.
North American hoofed animals--just one species, perhaps an endangered animal like Key deer--will forage
side by side with sandhill cranes. The acreage would give them enough room to live without stripping the environment.
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