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Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is a 6,440-acre (26.1 km 2) wildlife refuge located about 20 mi (32 km) south of Muleshoe, Texas, on Texas State Highway 214.It is the oldest national wildlife refuge in Texas, having been established as the Muleshoe Migratory Waterfowl Refuge by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. [1]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has plans to expand three wildlife refuges in Texas, but critics say one is stealing agriculture acres. USFWS plans to expand 3 Texas wildlife refuges, but ...
As of 2022, there are 588 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, [1] with the addition of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge. [2] Refuges that have boundaries in multiple states are listed only in the state where the main visitor entrance is located.
Bailey County history is highlighted in the Muleshoe Heritage Center located off U.S. Highways 70 and 64 in Muleshoe. The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge was founded in 1935 and is the oldest such refuge in Texas. Bailey County once was one of 30 prohibition or entirely dry counties in Texas, but is now a wet county. [5]
As a proposed mine on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge nears final approval, Georgia lawmakers are considering a three-year pause on future permits to allow expansion ...
The category for national wildlife refuges in Texas relates to wildlife areas in the U.S. state of Texas. ... Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge; N.
A recently completed project will protect 3,000 acres of freshwater wetlands at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge from sea-level rise and extreme weather tied to climate change, as well as ...
The Audubon Society persuaded U.S. Senator Allen J. Ellender to establish a National Park in Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, the last remaining possible refuge of the now thought-to-be extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker [81] [34] The Resurrection of the Lord God Bird, Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 2015