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The oxbow lake is in the upper left. Five days later, a levee breach resulted in the refuge closing after being nearly totally inundated. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is in the foreground. 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 ...
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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.
Nov. 30—The Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center, which has been undergoing renovations since March 2022, will reopen in time for the start of the Festival of the Cranes on Jan. 12 ...
More than 1 million ducks and geese will spend the winter throughout Merced County wildlife refuges, state and public lands. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...
More than 100 years later, in 1968, private salvagers Sam Corbino and Jesse Pursell discovered the wreck in the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Since the boat was found on government property, the men had to comply with the Antiquities Act of 1906 , by which they relinquished all of the recovered ...
Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge: Jackson County: AL 1981 199 acres (0.81 km 2) Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge: Lauderdale County: AL January 3, 1997 1,060 acres (4.3 km 2) [8] Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge: Calhoun County: AL May 29, 2003 9,016 acres (36.49 km 2) Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge: Jackson County: AL 1978 ...
The elk herd survives the hard winters of Jackson Hole through a supplementary feeding program [1] and a lottery-based, permitted hunting program. [2] The elk have antlers which are shed each year- the Boy Scouts of America have been collecting the antlers under permit since 1968 [3] and selling them at auction, under agreement that 75% of the proceeds are returned to the refuge, where they ...