Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address: PO Box 287
Galena, AK 99741
Phone: 907-656-1231;
Fax: 907-656-1708;
Phone: 800-656-1231;
Web: nowitna.fws.gov
Established: 1980.
Location: 150 miles west of Fairbanks, Alaska, in the central Yukon River Valley.
Facilities: Visitor contact station (in Galena).
Activities: Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, primitive camping.
Special Features: A 223-mile segment of the Nowitna River, a nationally designated Wild River, bisects the refuge and forms a broad meandering floodplain.
Habitats: More than 2,100,000 acres of river valley, wetlands, forest and tundra.
Access: Access to the refuge is possible by airplane, boat, snowmobile, dog sled, or on foot.
Wild life: Moose, bear, caribou, martens, wolverine, ducks, geese, trumpeter swans, bald eagle, northern harrier, red-tailed hawk, salmon, sheefish and northern pike.

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