Participants visit the DeSoto NWR booth at the Bass Pro Shop Kids Week event. - Photo by Dave Murcia

DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) helped make the Bass Pro Shops Kids Week in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a success, August 5, 2006. DeSoto NWR sponsored a refuge booth at the event, with information on all of the wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities available to families in their own national wildlife refuge.

Approximately 200 children and family members visited the booth and gathered refuge brochures and maps, bird lists, trail maps, fishing and hunting information, volunteer information, friends group opportunities, and photography information, including details on the official Federal Recreation Lands “Share the Experience” photo contest.