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The wetland's primary outflow is an outlet canal to Little Cheyenne Creek to the southeast. [11] Little Cheyenne Creek empties into Cow Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River. [3] [11] Cheyenne Bottoms lies entirely within Barton County. [11] The entire wetland occupies a natural land sink spanning 41,000 acres or 64 square miles (170 km 2). [4]
The Cache River National Wildlife Refuge is a 68,993 acre (223 km 2) (2014) wildlife refuge in the state of Arkansas managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). [3]
Twenty-one miles (34 km) of canals have been constructed to create additional marshland. The Refuge has 34 wetlands from 10 to 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) in size totaling 7,000 acres (28 km 2). [5] The wetlands have high salt levels. Quivira also has about 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of sand dunes covered with prairie grasses.
Hiking columnist Susan Anderson likes to visit Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve in winter to see things hidden by summer foliage.
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Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (41,000 acres ... Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (10,882 acres ... Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District ...
People walk down to the beach to watch the sunset over Lake Michigan in Michigan City, Indiana in June of 2021. - Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel