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Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge: Brazoria County: TX 1969 44,414 acres (179.74 km 2) [494] Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Randall County: TX 1958 7,680 acres (31.1 km 2) [495] Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Harrison County: TX 2000 8,493 acres (34.37 km 2) [496] Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge: Grayson County: TX 1946 11,320 ...
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge: Texas: 114,657.05 464.00 Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Virginia / North Carolina 111,202.81 450.02
On August 23, 1935 Executive Order 7156 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a reversal of the project to create a "refuge feeding and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife." It was the first national wildlife refuge in Missouri. Its original planned name was the "Squaw Creek Migratory Water Fowl Refuge."
federal/US Fish & Wildlife Service One of the best developed, least disturbed natural shortgrass climax communities remaining in the Great Plains. Part of Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Independence Creek Preserve: 2024 Terrell: private [1] [2] Little Blanco River Bluff: 1982: Blanco: private
McFaddin, much the larger one, located at around , has a total area of 58,861.43 acres (238.2038 km 2), while the smaller Texas Point, located at around , has 8,952.02 acres (36 [ 1 ] Texas Point and McFaddin refuges supply important feeding and resting habitat for migrating and wintering populations of waterfowl using the Central Flyway .
The Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge protects 6,000 acres of wildlife habitat and was established in 1990, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It originated to protect and restore ...
The Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge was established in 1994, and has grown to over 16,700 acres (68 km 2). Like pearls on a string, these acres are spread out as individual units along the Missouri River between Kansas City and St. Louis. These pearls of habitat benefit floodplain-dependent fish and wildlife species.
Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a 10,795-acre (43.69 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge established in 1937 and located in Chariton County, Missouri, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Sumner. It is located near the confluence of the Grand and Missouri Rivers .