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The Delta National Wildlife Refuge is located 10 miles (16 km) east of Venice, Louisiana along the Mississippi River. The area formed when a breach in the natural levee of the Mississippi River occurred in 1862 approximately 100 miles (160 km) below New Orleans, Louisiana .
The Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife preserve operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on the Nisqually River Delta near Puget Sound in northeastern Thurston County, Washington and northwestern Pierce County, Washington. The refuge is located just off Interstate 5, between the cities of Tacoma and ...
Billy Frank Jr. was born in Nisqually, Washington in 1931 to parents Willie and Angeline Frank. His father, known as Qui-Lash-Kut, lived to the age of 104, while his mother, Angeline, lived into her 90s. [8] Frank spent his formative years on a six-acre property called Frank's Landing, situated along the Nisqually River.
Delta National Wildlife Refuge: Plaquemines Parish: LA 1935: 49,000 acres (200 km 2) [163] Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge: Avoyelles Parish: LA 1989: 6,077 acres (24.59 km 2) [164] East Cove National Wildlife Refuge: Cameron Parish: LA 1937: 14,927 acres (60.41 km 2) [165] Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge: Morehouse Parish: LA 1988: ...
State of Louisiana [24] Marsh Island Wildlife Refuge: Iberia Parish: 76,664 (now 71,000) LDWF [25] Queen Bess Island Wildlife Refuge Jefferson 37 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge: Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish: 71,000 State of Louisiana [26] St. Tammany Wildlife Refuge St. Tammany Parish: 1,310
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The Nisqually River is the traditional territorial center of the Nisqually tribe, for which it was named, though they also lived throughout southern Puget Sound. [7] The Treaty of Medicine Creek, one of the major Northwest treaties between Washington territory and the native population of Puget Sound, was signed near a creek at the delta of the Nisqually River.
The Nisqually Reach is a portion of Puget Sound south of the Tacoma Narrows, near the Nisqually River delta. It is classified as a bay by the United States government. [1] It was originally defined as "the portion of the Sound lying between Anderson Island and the mainland". [2] The Thurston–Pierce County line bisects the Reach. [3]