Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781484863428

The primary role of the Medicine Lake NWR Complex is to conserve its diverse wetlands and grasslands as a "refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife." This draft comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and environmental assessment (EA) will guide management of these lands for the next 15 years.

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment
Author: U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781505814576

Every spring and fall, the big sky country of northeast Montana is fi lled with the clamor of bird calls. Many migrating birds stop along the glaciated rolling plains between the Missouri River and the Canadian border, at the Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), the Northeast Montana Wetland Management District (WMD), and the Lamesteer National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), which are managed together as one refuge complex. With a bird list that includes some 283 species, the refuge complex has been designated as one of the top 100 globally important bird areas in the United States by the American Bird Conservancy (Chipley 2001).

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment
Author: U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781505682625

Bear Butte National Wildlife Refuge was established as a limited-interest refuge in the late 1930s with the acquisition of easements from private landowners, the state of South Dakota, and the War Department (now transferred to the Bureau of Land Management at Ft. Meade) to maintain an area for "migratory bird, wildlife conservation, and other purposes." The refuge is 374.20 easement acres and has no fee title.