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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1958, is located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska. The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation.
DeSoto Lake is a lake within DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Harrison and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa and Washington County, Nebraska. The 811 acres (328 ha) lake has a maximum depth of 26 feet (7.9 m). [1] Though it has the appearance of a natural lake it is man-made, created from a channel leading from the Missouri River in 1958.
Museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. River routes were also integral to the fur trade between St. Louis and the Indian country that provided the furs, which had been going on since the early 19th century. J.J. Roe & Co. consistently took goods upriver and brought furs and other extractive materials back down the river.
Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge: Matagorda County: 1983 5,000 acres (20 km 2) [493] Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge: Brazoria County: 1969 44,414 acres (179.74 km 2) [494] Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Randall County: 1958 7,680 acres (31.1 km 2) [495] Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Harrison County: 2000 8,493 acres (34.37 ...
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge: Missouri Valley: Harrison: Western: 8,362-acre refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska), visitor center exhibits, education programs Dickinson County Nature Center: Okoboji: Dickinson: Northwest: website, operated by the Dickinson County Conservation Board, located in 60-acre Kenue Park Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center ...
They include the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri and the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska. The Katy Trail travels along the valley in Missouri. Other protected areas in the valley include: Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge; Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge; Lake Sakakawea
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1992, is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. state of Nebraska. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The 4,040-acre (1,630 ha) refuge preserves an area that had been cultivated and neglected before the early 1990s. [ 4 ]
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a 240,000-acre (970 km 2), [2] 261-mile long (420 km) National Wildlife Refuge located in and along the Upper Mississippi River. It runs from Wabasha, Minnesota in the north to Rock Island, Illinois in the south. (United States Fish and Wildlife Service)