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A visitor center in the refuge displays many of these items. The Bertrand site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is located five miles (eight kilometres) east of Blair, Nebraska. Access to the refuge is on U.S. Route 30 between Blair and Interstate 29.
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.
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Museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. River routes were also integral to the fur trade between St. Louis and the Indian country that provided the furs, which had been going on since the early 19th century. J.J. Roe & Co. consistently took goods upriver and brought furs and other extractive materials back down the river.
Horace Bixby was one of the pilots of the steamboat Bertrand, which sank on April 1, 1865, after hitting a snag in the Missouri River, north of Omaha, Nebraska, in what was to become the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. [19] The wreck of the Bertrand was excavated in 1968, and much of its cargo as survived—over 500,000 artifacts—are on ...
Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge: Chesterfield County: SC 1939 45,348 acres (183.52 km 2) [463] Ernest F. Hollings ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (Part of the South Carolina Lowcountry National Wildlife Refuge Complex) Beaufort County Charleston County Colleton County Hampton County: SC 1990 11,815 acres (47.81 km 2) [464]
The Detroit International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton is expanding with the acquisition of 114 acres of land, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday. The land will be maintained to ...
The South Carolina Lowcountry National Wildlife Refuge Complex is an administrative organization that manages U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wildlife refuges in eastern South Carolina. The complex includes: Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge; Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge; Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge; Santee National Wildlife ...