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The trail goes through wooded and open areas, beneath towering cottonwood trees, past marshes and ponds, and to a shore and waterfowl watching area on Sand Creek Bay. [15] Selenite crystals: A designated area of the 11,000 acres (45 km 2) of salt flats at the refuge has gypsum concentrations high enough to grow selenite, a crystalline form of ...
Leased to the City of Hinton, Oklahoma in 2018. Snowdale State Park: Mayes: 15: 1959: Lake Hudson (Oklahoma) Snowdale became the Snowdale Area at Grand Lake State Park. [6] [7] The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation chose not to renew its lease from the Grand River Dam Authority in 2019, shutting down the park. [8] Walnut Creek State ...
Established in 1970, a partnership between Ducks Unlimited, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, the National Audubon Society, U.S. Coast Guard, Oklahoma State Parks, Oklahoma State University, and Missouri State University. [84] Hunting is allowed in the Sandtown Bottom, Webbers Bottom, and Girty Bottom.
It is in southern Johnston and northeastern Marshall Counties in the eastern part of the state, near the upper Washita arm of Lake Texoma. The refuge was established in 1946 and contains 16,464 acres (66.3 km 2 ) of protected land managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Located in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle, the 4,333-acre (17.54 km 2) Optima National Wildlife Refuge is made up of grasslands and wooded bottomland on the Coldwater Creek arm of the Optima Lake project.
The refuge contains most of the remaining bottomland hardwood communities in the southeastern part of the state. It is characterized by low, wet oak and hickory forest with oxbows and sloughs. Trees of the landscape include hickory, willow oak, sweetgum, cypress, white oak, loblolly pine, and walnut. A map of the Little River National Wildlife ...
The following is a list of lakes in Oklahoma located entirely (or partially, as in the case of Lake Texoma) in the state. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Oklahoma has more than 200 lakes created by dams. All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes ...
The western population, the California least tern, was listed as an endangered species in 1972 with a population of about 600 pairs.With aggressive management, mainly by the exclusion of humans via fencing, the Californian population has rebounded in recent years to about 4500 pairs, a marked increase from 582 pairs in 1974 when census work began, though it is still listed as an endangered ...