INTENSITY OF PUBLIC USE ON NATIONAL WILDLIEE REFUGES IN I962 



A. Areas With Greatest Pulollc Use : 



Upper Mississippi 

 CralD Orchard 

 Wichita Mountains 



Total 



1,837,555 

 1,353,000 



1,102,155 

 U, 292, 710 



B. Refuges Super lig-posed on Biireau of R eclamation, Corps of Engineers, 

 "Reservoirs, or other Flood Control Projects: 



TVA 



Havasu LaJce 556,^^3 



Tennessee 328,800 



Fort Peck 2^^5,881 



Santee 2l6,500 



Deer Flat 193,955 



Wheeler l83,600 



Imperial 150,98^ 



Kirvin 137,^70 



Kentucky Woodlands 121,900 



Tule Lake 76,620 



Lower Klamath 53,76^ 



Mark Twain ^3,753 



Loxahatchee 

 Bowdoin 

 Pathfinder 

 Minidoka 

 Upper Klamath 

 McKay Creek 

 Cold Springs 

 McNary 

 Stillwater 

 Clear Lake 

 Salton Sea 

 Snake Creek 



Total 



36,016 



21,783 

 20,500 

 15,600 

 12,000 

 11,000 



■ 10,300 



5,000 



1^,500 



3,510 



1,516 



323 



2,i^5l,7l8 



Other Refuges With More Than 30,000 Annual Visitors 



Buffalo Lakes 

 Horicon 

 Salt Plains 

 White River 

 Parker River 

 Desert Game 

 Hagerman, 

 Sanihel 

 Okefenokee 

 Kenai 

 National Elk 



333,900 

 269,^00 

 260,675 

 2^0,250 

 232,500 

 206,000 

 169,65^ 

 169,000 

 152,000 

 108,000 

 107,850 



Necedah 



Upper Sour is 



Brigantine 



Noxuhee 



De Soto 



Key Deer, etc. 



Columbia 



Swan Lake 



Seney 



Chautauqua 



D. Public Use on Remaining 96 Refuges: 



April 1963 



100,000 



Sullys Hill 



91,700 



National Bison 



86,275 



Reelfoot 



79,^0 



St. Marks 



76,625 



Ft. Niobrara 



75,000 



Slade 



73,060 



Mattamuskeet 



5^^,000 



Lacassine 



^7,500 



Agassiz 



k6,0k2 



Piedmont 



i^-5,ooo 



llll-,000 

 iK),250 

 35,825 



35,000 

 3i^,i^oo 



32,75^ 

 32,550 



31,679 

 30,780 



Total 



3,3^^1,069 



Subtotal 



10,065,^97 





785,01+5 



GRAND TOTAL 



10,870,5^2 



26748 " 63 



