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Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
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Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
26320 Hwy 33 South
Augusta, 72006
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Park Overview
Cache River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in 1986 to protect significant wetland habitats and provide feeding and resting areas for migrating waterfowl.
As one of the few remaining areas in the Lower Mississippi River Valley not drastically altered by channelization and drainage, the Cache River basin contains a variety of wetland communities including some of the most intact and least disturbed bottomland hardwood forests in the Mississippi Valley region. These unique and valuable wetlands have been protected by the RAMSAR Convention as Wetlands of International Importance.
At present the refuge currently encompasses over 56,000 acres located in numerous non-contiguous tracts in Jackson, Woodruff, Monroe and Prairie counties in east central Arkansas. The boundary of this refuge changes frequently as land acquisition continues along the Cache River, White River and Bayou Deview.
Nature of the Area
Refuge is located in the 10-year flood plain of the Cache River from its confluence with the White River - Clarendon -R to Grubbs -R - air-mile distance of approximately 70 miles.
Large concentrations of wintering waterfowl during the winter.
Recognized as a Wetland of International Importance by the RAMSAR Convention and the most important wintering area for mallards by the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
Habitat includes 33,000 acres of bottomland forest and associated sloughs and oxbow lakes, 4,300 acres of croplands and 7,500 acres of reforested areas.
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The mission of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, working with others, is to conserve, protect and
Choose a State Arkansas Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Other Refuges administered Bald
AR (Printed 3/86) Buffalo National River -- Harrison -R (Updated 3/97) Cache River National Wildlife Refuge -- Augusta -R (Printed 5/96) Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge -- AR Felsenthal
Bird Checklists of the United States Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Augusta -rkansas Symbols indicative of seasonal abundance of each species are as follows U.S. COE Study sightings
+1 870 564 2429 P.O. Box 67, Manila -R 72442 r4rw_ar.bgl@mail.fws.gov Cache River National Wildlife Refuge +1 501 347 2614 Route 2, Box 126-T -ugusta -R 72006 r4rw_ar_nea@fws.gov Felsenthal
National Wildlife Refuges IndexArkansas. Includes links to information on Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge Big Lake
Arkansas Public Lands Cache River NWR
Us About Arkansas Public Lands Cache River NWR DescriptionCache River National Wildlife Refuge is located in the White River Basin of east central Arkansas
Waterfowl Hunting Club and Guide Service
Jonesboro -rkansas "The Mallard Masters" PACKAGE 1Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Pit Lease Location Cache National Wildlife Refuge (Northern End
188 4. Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge Marion, IL, 33,500 5. Cache River National Wildlife Refuge Augusta -R, 29,050 Upland Game Hunting 1. Litchfield Wetland Management District Litchfield
Ozark/St. Francis National Forest and the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. The Nature Conservancy bought the lands
within the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge boundaries in Woodruff
Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
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