Wildlife in the United States 



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Table I. — -Specialized wildlife refuges under administration by 

 the Bureau of Biological Survey, showing the year established, 

 the acreage of the surveyed lands, and the chief species for the 

 protection of which each tras established 



Table I. — Specialized wildlife refuges under administration by 

 the Bureau of Biological Survey, showing the year established, 

 the acreage of the surveyed lands, and the chief species for the 

 protection of which each was established — Continued 



State and designation 



Minnesota: 

 Mille Lacs 



Upper Mississippi 

 River Wildlife and 

 Fish Refuge (see also 

 Iowa, Illinois, and 

 Wisconsin). 

 Montana: 



Benton Lake 



National Bison Range.. 

 Nebraska: 

 Crescent Lake 



Niobrara 



Nevada: 



.\naho Island 



Charles Sheldon 



Railroad Valley 



New Jersey: 



Killcohook (see also 

 Delaware). 

 North Carolina: 



Lake Mattamuskeet... 



Swanquarter.. 



North Dakota: 

 Chase Lake... 



Long Lake... 

 Stump Lake. 

 SuUysHill... 



Oklahoma: 

 Salt Plains. 



Wichita Mountains 

 Wildlife Refuge.-' 

 Oregon : 



Qoat Island 



Lake Malheur .-. 



Malheur (Blitzen Val- 

 ley). 



Three .\rch Rocks 



Puerto Rico: 

 Culebra 



Desecbeo Island... 



South Carolina: 

 Cape Remain 



Year 

 estab- 

 lished 



Savannah River 

 also Georgia). 

 Utah: 

 Bear River 



(see 



Locomotive Springs. .. 



Washington: 



Columbia River 



Copalis Rock 



Dungeness Spit 



Ediz Hook 



Flattery Rocks 



Smith Island 



Quillayute Needles 



Wisconsin: 



Gravel Island 



Green Bay 



Upper Mississippi 

 River Wildlife and 

 Fish Refuge (see 

 also Iowa. Illinois, 

 and Minnesota). 

 Wyoming: 



Bamforth Lake 



Elk Retuge 



Flat Creek , 



Button Lake , 



1915 

 1925 



1929 

 1909 



1931 

 1912 



1913 

 1931 

 1934 



1934 

 1932 



1908 

 1931 

 1905 

 1914 



1930 

 1905 



1935 

 1908 



1935 



1909 

 1912 



1928 



1931 



1926 

 1907 



1915 

 1915 



1907 



1914 



1907 



1913 

 1912 

 1925 



1932 

 1912 



1922 

 1932 



Acres 



23.288 



12.235 



18. .521 



40. 782 

 16.681 



248 

 30. 321 

 135, 184 



856 



49. 925 

 15. 493 



2.960 



8,795 



27 



994 



19. 453 

 61.500 



21 

 95, 155 



(■) 

 (') 



2,559 



64,216 



1.031 



83 

 125 



65 



117 



27 



2 



64.749 



2.163 

 4.558 



Chief species protected 



40 

 ,708 



Galls, ducks, geese. 



Ducks, geese, shore birds, upland game 

 birds, muskrats, minks, beavers, 

 foxes, raccoons, fishes, mollusks. 



Ducks, geese, shore birds. 

 Ducks, grouse, pheasants, buffalo, deer, 

 mountain sheep, elk. 



Terns, ducks, geese, coots, sandpipers 



and other shore birds. 

 Prairie chickens, sharp-tailed grouse 



quail, hufialo, elk. antelope, beavers 

 Gulls, cormorants, white pelicans. 

 Sage grouse, antelope. 

 Ducks, geese, ibises, avocets. shori 

 birds. 



Ducks, geese, muskrats. 



Ducks, geese, swans, shore birds, 



muskrats. 

 Ducks, geese, brant, swans, sandpipers 



and other shore birds. 



Gulls, white pelicans, ducks, shore 



birds, grouse. 

 Gulls, terns, ducks, coots, and willets, 



sandpipers and other shore birds. 

 Grebes, gulls, terns, ducks, Wilson's 



phalaropes. 

 Goldeneye and wood ducks, geese, 



pheasants, buflalo, elk, white-tailed 



deer. 



Franklin's gulls, black terns, waterfowl, 



bitterns, rails, shore birds. 

 Ducks, geese, wild turkeys, buflalo, 



elk, deer, antelope, Texas longhorns. 



California murres. gulls, puffins, geese. 



Grebes, gulls, terns, cormorants, peli- 

 cans, ducks, gee.se, swans, herons. 



Grebes, gulls, terns, cormorants, peli- 

 cans, ducks, geese, swans, ibises, 

 herons, sandhill cranes, sage grouse, 

 deer, antelope, beavers. 



Puffins, guillemots, murres, gulls, fork- 

 tailed petrels, cormorants. 



Gulls, royal terns, Bahama ducks, 

 herons, coots, ground doves. 



Terns, boobies, man-o'-war birds, 

 oyster catchers. 



Ducks, curlews, egrets, herons, pelicans 

 ibises, sanderlings. dowitchers. oyster 

 catchers, sandpipers and other shore 

 birds, sea turtles, diamond -.back 

 terrapin. 



Ducks, herons, rails, coots, shore birds. 



Ducks, geese, coots, shore birds, peli- 

 cans, ibises, pheasants, beavers, 

 muskrats. 



Ducks, coots, curlews, avocets, sand- 

 pipers and other shore birds. 



Gulls, ducks, geese, blue herons. 

 Puffins, miu-res, glaucous and western 



gulls, petrels, cormorants. 

 Grebes, loons, gulls, ducks. 

 Pigeon guillemots, California murres, 



cormorants. 

 Tufted puffins, pigeon guillemots, 



California murres. 

 Western grebes, pigeon guillemots, 



California murres, cormorants, ducks. 

 Grebes, auklets, gulls, cormorants. 



Herring gulls. 



Do. 

 Ducks, geese, shore birds, upland game 



birds, muskrats. minks, raccoons. 



b^vers, (axes, Qsbes, mollusks. 



Ducks, geese, sandpipers and other 



shore birds. 

 Ducks, geese, sage grouse, elk (in 



winter) . 

 Ducks, geese, elk (in winter). 

 Ducks, geese, and sandpipers and 



other shore birds. 



'Unsurveyed areas. ' Jurisdiction transferred from Forest Service, 193S. 



