Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Huron Wetland Management District is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota and includes 17,518 acres (70.89 km 2). The refuge borders the Missouri River on the east and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Huron WMD covers eight counties in east-central South Dakota.
Waubay National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. "Waubay" means "a place where numbers of birds make their nests" in the Dakota language.The Refuge encompasses 4,650 acres (18.8 km 2) of wetlands, native tallgrass prairie, and bur oak forest that provide a wide variety of nesting habitat for more than 100 species of waterfowl, song birds, and upland game birds as ...
Waubay Wetland Management District is located in the "Coteau des Prairies", or prairie hills region of South Dakota. It includes more than 300 waterfowl production areas (WPAs) in six counties of northeastern South Dakota: Clark, Codington, Day, Grant, Marshall, and Roberts.
“For these reasons, the department is very confident this issue of 105 licenses will have no biological impact on duck populations in South Dakota and across the flyway,” he said.
Southeast South Dakota SD 1961 82,731 acres (334.80 km 2) [474] Madison Wetland Management District: East Central South Dakota SD 1969 129,700 acres (525 km 2) [475] Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Brown County: SD 1935 21,498 acres (87.00 km 2) [476] Sand Lake Wetland Management District: North Central South Dakota SD 1961 45,000 acres ...
Their agricultural practices depleted wildlife habitat and caused a severe decline in waterfowl numbers. The US Congress established the refuge in 1935 to preserve wildlife habitat and breeding grounds. [2] The Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in northeastern South Dakota, and covers 21,498 acres (8,700 ha) of wildlife habitat.
Pelican Lake is a natural lake in South Dakota, in the United States. [1] The north-east shore is part of Watertown, South Dakota. Pelican Lake was once a habitat of the pelican, hence the name. [2] The lake remains a popular stopping point for migrating waterfowl, with geese and ducks using the open water of the lake as a resting area each ...
Deep Fork River runs for 6 miles (9.7 km) through the OWMA, which is mostly upland and hilly rather than flat and swampy, as the refuge is. Adjoining the refuge on the south is the Eufaula Wildlife Management area which preserves another 7 miles (11 km) of the Deep Fork River to its mouth at Eufaula Lake. Land in Eufaula WMA is similar in ...