National Wildlife Refuges in Arkansas
Young white egrets
As usual, the National Wildlife Refuges in Arkansas revolve almost entirely around preserving and protecting valuable wetland resources for native wildlife and migratory birds. The only exception is the Logan Cave NWR: managed to protect a unique, Ozark Mountain limestone cave ecosystem of endangered cave-dwelling species. For example, the Ozark cave crayfish is known to inhabit Logan Cave and only one other site on the planet. Also living on this property are the endangered gray bat and the threatened Ozark cavefish.
National Wildlife Refuges
- Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge
- Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge
- Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
- Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
- Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge
- Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge
- Overflow National Wildlife Refuge
- Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge
- Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge
- White River National Wildlife Refuge
Photo of the white egrets courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service
Photo of Buck Lake courtesy of Richard Hines, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Map courtesy of Cartesia MapArt US Terrain