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Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge

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Address: 1502 SE Kings Bay Dr
Crystal River, FL 34429
Phone: 352-563-2088;
Fax: 352-795-7961;
Web: www.fws.gov/chassahowitzka
Established: 1941.
Location: On Florida's Gulf coast, 65 miles north of Saint Petersburg.
Facilities: Visitor contact station.
Activities: Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, educational programs.
Special Features: The refuge supports a healthy population of reptiles, including the Florida cottonmouth, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, diamondback terrapin, and Florida box turtles. Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are often seen in the Chassahowitzka River.
Habitats: 31,000 acres of saltwater bays and estuaries, brackish marshes, and hardwood swamps.
Access: Unlimited; most of the refuge is accessible only by boat.
Wild life: Endangered and threatened species include southern bald eagle, arctic peregrine falcon, brown pelican, wood stork, West Indian manatee, Florida black bear, American alligator, eastern indigo snake, gopher tortoise, green sea turtle, Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, and loggerhead sea turtle. Also raccoons, deer, bobcats, coyotes, cormorants, herons, egrets, osprey, and many species of ducks.

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The 1,250-mile journey starts at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin and ends at the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.

Wing commander..and water fooling; ..and water fooling by The Mirror (London, England)

In the coast's northern reaches, Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, and Withlacoochee State Forest preserve the pristine waters and forests of Citrus and Hernando counties.

Introduction by Walton, Chelle Koster / Tampa Bay & Florida's West Coast Adventure Guide, 4th ed.

Whooping Crane (Grus americana) The successful effort to reintroduce migratory whooping cranes to the eastern United States continued as 20 of the reintroduced whoopers migrated back to Wisconsin on their own from Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida during the spring of 2003.

Region 3 by Endangered Species Update