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The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge is a 31,551-acre (12,768 ha) National Wildlife Refuge located in Chatham and Effingham counties in Georgia and Jasper County in South Carolina. Of the total area, 15,395 acres (6,230 ha) is in Georgia and 15,263 acres (6,177 ha) is in South Carolina.
Savannah National Wildlife Refuge; W. Wassaw Island; Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 20:37 (UTC). Text is ...
Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Harrison County: 2000 8,493 acres (34.37 km 2) [496] Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge: Grayson County: 1946 11,320 acres (45.8 km 2) [497] Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge: Cameron County Willacy County: 1946 65,096 acres (263.43 km 2) [498] Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Cameron ...
At the nearly 32,000-acre Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, Irma’s storm surge sent torrents of saltwater over levees and into expanses of carefully protected freshwater wetlands.
Staff members at the 32,000-acre Savannah National Wildlife Refuge experienced that phenomenon firsthand. In 2017, storm surge from the remnants of Hurricane Irma sent torrents of saltwater over ...
Wassaw Island is one of the Sea Islands.It is located on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia and is within the borders of Chatham County.The island and its surrounding marshlands are part of the Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge, which has a total area of 10,053 acres (40.68 km 2) of marsh, mudflats, and tidal creeks, including approximately 7 miles (11 km) of ...
Fall in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Georgia's federally protected areas are managed by agencies within the United States Department of the Interior.The agencies which govern nationally protected places in Georgia are the National Park Service; the U.S. Forest Service; the Bureau of Land Management; and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Preserve.
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 ...