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Wild Horse Lake is a playa lake located in Texas County, Oklahoma. The lake is west of Hooker, east of Hough, just south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border, off State Highway 136. [1] The lake was the location of the infamous Hay Meadow Massacre (July 1888) in which one faction in the county seat fight in Stevens County, Kansas, killed four members ...
Great Salt Plains Lake is the centerpiece of a wildlife refuge that is a critical way-station for migratory birds. Aerial view of Fort Gibson Lake and Sequoyah State Park. Many large Oklahoma lakes have state parks and lodges.
Possible definitions of Green Country. The borders as officially defined by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation denoted by shades of bright and dark red; the counties of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area denoted in dark red; possible inclusion of Southeastern Oklahoma added by pink, although the Oklahoma Department of Tourism includes this area in the separate Choctaw Country.
A portion of the WMA was renamed the Lyndol Fry Waterfowl Refuge, adjacent to the Kiamichi River, and consisting of 3,500 acres. [48] Hulah WMA [49] Osage: 16,162 acres (6,541 ha) 20 miles northeast of Pawhuska. WMA follows the Caney River from southeast of Elgin, Kansas to Hulah Lake with three other fingers following creeks and rivers to ...
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is the oldest and largest of nine national wildlife refuges in the state [16] and was founded in 1901, encompassing 59,020 acres (238.8 km 2). [17] Of Oklahoma's federally protected park or recreational sites, the Chickasaw National Recreation Area is the largest, with 4,500 acres (18 km 2). [18]
Nov. 22—CHEYENNE — There are only three live horse racing tracks across Wyoming, and none of them are in Laramie County. That may change soon, however, as two separate proposals were discussed ...
Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
In 1962, public pressure lead to the establishment of the Nevada Wild Horse Range, [66] and in 1968, the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range was established. In 1969, the National Mustang Association, headquartered in Utah, [ 67 ] persuaded Senator Frank Moss to introduce a bill (S. 2166) to protect the remaining mustangs of Spanish descent under ...