Today's winter visitors, 90 percent of whom come to ski, swell the town's population to 20,000 from 6,000.
The winter visitors come in September and stay until May.
The three native species are all winter visitors in the central and southern parts of the region.
The county's population has grown from 11,872 in 1950 to about 83,000 now, not counting winter visitors.
Most striking, the refuge and adjacent state park are now hosts to a growing number of winter visitors.
The Forest Service estimated the area had 53,300 winter visitors in 2000.
Prior to 1948 it was only a winter visitor.
The top 10 winter visitors to watch out for, and where best to see them .
It is a regular winter visitor around the coastal areas of Pakistan in small numbers.
It is a winter visitor in the northern parts of its range.
