Features
Ski and Snowshoe at the Refuge!
Grab your skis and snowshoes and explore the auto tour road and trails!
Trail Map
Hunting on the Refuge
Hunting season has begun! Blind locations with GPS at bottom of hunting page.
Hunting Information
All About Birds
Learn about some of the birds that make Kootenai NWR their home!
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Featured Items
Story trail on Myrtle Falls trail. Funded by WREN, The Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, Inc., USFWS, and Bonners Books. Share a nature story with your children as you hike up to the waterfall. Story will change throughout the year.
About the Complex
From the channeled scablands, to the mixed-conifer forests, and diverse wetlands three uniquely different refuges comprise the Inland Northwest Refuge Complex.
Kootenai is managed as part of the Inland Northwest NWR Complex.
Learn more about the complex About the NWRS
The National Wildlife Refuge System, within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, manages a national network of lands and waters set aside to conserve America’s fish, wildlife, and plants.
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The striking cinnamon colored head and light-blue wing patch make this dabbling duck a delight to see!
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Page Photo Credits — Cinnamon Teal drake in flight. -©Stan Bousson, Western Meadowlark singing. -©Stan Bousson, Black-chinned Hummingbird. © Stan Bousson, Elk in winter. -© Steve Jamsa, Cross country skiing. © Dorey Rowland
Last Updated: Dec 19, 2016