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Location Date Established Area Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge [5] Baldwin County: 1980 6,816 acres (27.58 km 2) Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge: Bibb County: September 25, 2002 2,997 acres (12.13 km 2) [6] Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge: Choctaw County: 1964 4,218 acres (17.07 km 2) Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge: Barbour County ...
Nevada State Route 140 traverses the refuge from east to west and is the only paved road within the refuge. The nearest community of any size is Denio, Nevada, 14 miles from the refuge's eastern boundary. The nearest divided highway is Interstate 80 in Winnemucca, Nevada, approximately 100 miles to the south.
Thousands of gray wolves roamed America's wilderness for centuries until hunters, ranchers and others nearly decimated the species. In 1973, the federal government listed them as endangered in the ...
Additional wolves have been tracked entering the state, as the Cascade Range extends south from Oregon into northern California. Wolves are dispersing into the Sierra Nevada and other portions of their historic habitat. [57] Wolves from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have dispersed into Colorado several times in the 21st century. In 2021 ...
A newly announced pack in the Sequoia National Forest is more than 200 miles south of the nearest known pack.
The latest wildlife mystery in Nevada has been solved. DNA testing confirmed the results with 99.9% certainty, the Nevada Department of Wildlife announced this week. The sighting in northeast ...
In 2017, a single gray wolf was documented in Nevad a near the California line west of the Black Rock Desert about 120 miles (193 km) north of Reno. It later was determined to be a lone visitor related to the Shasta pack in northern California. Before then, the last confirmed Nevada sighting of a wolf was in 1922, near Elko County’s Gold Creek.
The CDFW confirmed the wolves had established territory in California with footage from a trail camera in 2015. Biologists believed the two adult wolves migrated into the state from southern Oregon. [21] One of the grown-up pups was found in northwestern Nevada in 2016, the first wolf verified in Nevada in nearly 100 years.