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Red River
National Wildlife Refuge
11372 Hwy 143
Farmerville, LA   71241
E-mail: northlarefuges@fws.gov
Phone Number: 318-726-4222
Visit the Refuge's Web Site:
http://www.fws.gov/southeast/redriver/
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  Overview
Red River National Wildlife Refuge
The Red River National Wildlife Refuge Act was signed into law on October 13, 2001. According to legislation, the refuge shall consist of approximately 50,000 acres of Federal lands and water along that section of the Red River between Colfax, Louisiana and Arkansas state line, a distance of approximately 120 miles. Currently the Service has acquired approximatley 6,000 acres of the proposed 50,000 acres.

The four focus areas to purchase land for the refuge are:

Lower Cane River (Natchitoches Parish)

Spanish Lake Lowlands (Natchitoches Parish)

Bayou Pierre Floodplain (Desoto and Red River Parishes)

Wardview (Caddo and Bossier Parishes)


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Wildlife and Habitat
The proposed lands for Red River NWR are mostly bottomland hardwood forests that were cleared for agriculture during the mid-1900s. Wildlife include white-tailed deer, wild turkey, ducks, shorebirds, hawks, bobcats, squirrels, foxes, and coyotes.

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Managment Activities

Because most of the Red River delta has been converted to agriculture, one of the first management objectives on refuge lands will be to reforest these areas back to bottomland hardwood trees. Other areas will be managed for wintering waterfowl and migrating shorebirds by controlling water levels and through farming.