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The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge is a 31,551-acre ... (84 ha) to the refuge and renamed the area the Savannah River Wildlife Refuge. An additional 6,527 acres ...
Tybee National Wildlife Refuge Located in the mouth of the Savannah River , the 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) refuge began as a 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) oyster shoal, Oysterbed Island, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a spoil disposal site to support their mandated harbor dredging activity.
As part of a floodplain of the Savannah River, the area known as Phinizy Swamp is a 7,000-acre (2,800 ha) natural wetland created by the confluence of Butler Creek and the Savannah River. The swamp derives its name from Victor Francois Phinizy and his family, who owned a homestead on the land, first settling in 1778. [ 2 ]
Savannah National Wildlife Refuge by the numbers. Total area: 31,800 acres. Managed freshwater area. 3,000 acres. 16 pools or impoundments. 31 miles of levies. Waterfowl. 22 species. Up to 20,000 ...
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Lake Ramsay Savannah Wildlife Management Area St. Tammany: 796 ... Pearl River Wildlife Management Area: St. Tammany 35,619
Wolf Lake, source of the East Savanna River, is only about 800 yards (730 m) east of Savanna Lake on the West Savanna. [10] As the areas adjoining Wolf Lake and the upper East Savanna River are quite wet, the route selected for the portage trail departed from the river further downstream, shortening the distance to be traveled through the bog.
A tree savanna at Tarangire National Park in Tanzania in East Africa A grass savanna at Kruger National Park in South Africa. A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
The Savanna State Forest is located in Aitkin and Saint Louis counties in the U.S. State of Minnesota.Comprising over 238,000 acres, the forest is bisected by the Upper Mississippi River, and contains Savanna Portage State Park, which preserves a historic trade route connecting the Mississippi River with upper reaches of the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin.