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Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is a 43,890 acre (180 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge primarily in southwestern Williamson County, but with small extensions into adjacent eastern Jackson and northeastern Union counties of southern Illinois, in the United States. Its land and water contain a wide diversity of flora and fauna.
Crab Orchard Lake was created when Crab Orchard Creek, a tributary of the Big Muddy River in southern Illinois, was dammed in the 1930s for purposes of recreation and flood control. The Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge was established August 5, 1947 following the transfer of all land previously held by the Crab Orchard Creek Project and ...
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge: Jackson County Union County Williamson County: IL 1947 43,890 acres (177.6 km 2) [128] Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge: Alexander County Johnson County Pulaski County Union County: IL 1990 16,000 acres (65 km 2) [129] Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge: Fulton County: IL 1993 11,122 acres (45.01 km 2 ...
Nov. 30—The Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center, which has been undergoing renovations since March 2022, will reopen in time for the start of the Festival of the Cranes on Jan. 12 ...
Nye said the visitor center is currently about 90 feet from the edge of a quickly crumbling bluff. But the center's septic tank is about 30 feet closer to the edge.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a ruling on Monday that calls for the end of horseshoe crab harvesting in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina from March 15 to July 15.
Crab Orchard, Nebraska; Crab Orchard, Tennessee; Crab Orchard, West Virginia; Crab Orchard Mountains in Tennessee; Crab Orchard Community Unit School District 3 in Southern Illinois; Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Illinois Crab Orchard Lake, located in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge; Crab Orchard Wilderness ...
The Crab Orchard Wilderness is a 4,050-acre (16.4 km 2) parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in Williamson, Union, and Jackson counties in Illinois. [2]