Refuges (original) (raw)
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge is more than 260 miles long, extending from the Chippewa River in Pool 4 at Alma, Wis., down to Rock Island, Illinois in Pool 14. The Refuge is divided into four districts— Winona, La Crosse, McGregor and Savanna— to better manage this vast and varied tract of blufflands, marshes, bottom-land forest, islands, channels, backwater lakes and sloughs. For more information, go to the refuge web site: Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
Trempealeau National Wildlife & Fish Refuge is adjacent to the Upper Mississippi River Refuge but is a separate refuge that encompasses 5,617 acres of wetlands, sand prairie and bottomland forest. For more information, go to the refuge web site: Trempealeau National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
The Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge actually consists of separate tracts of land in what is called the "driftless region" of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois because it was not covered by glaciers in the last ice age. Driftless Refuge lands are managed collectively because of their valuable and rare physical characteristics, microhabitats and endangered species. For more information, go to the refuge web site: Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge.