Cache River National Wildlife Refuge

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Cache River National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address:26320 Hwy 33 S
Augusta, AR 72006
Phone:870-347-2614
Fax:870-347-2908
Web: cacheriver.fws.gov
Established: 1986.
Location:Along the Cache River and Bayou DeView in Jackson, Woodruff, Prairie, and Monroe counties.
Facilities:None.
Activities:Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting.
Special Features:This area of the Cache River is nationally known for it excellent waterfowl hunting. It is the single most important wintering area for mallards in North America, and contains the only population of native black bears in Arkansas.
Habitats: 62,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest in the middle and lower Cache River Basin.
Access: Unlimited.
Wild life: Waterfowl, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, deer.

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It culminated in the 1984 federal authorization to establish the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, a move that perpetually protected the basin from future channelization efforts.

1984: Cache River National Wildlife Refuge is authorized, establishing the refuge along the Cache River and Bayou DeView and conserving nearly 50,000 acres.

Taming the Cache: river's history follows many twists and turns

Fish & Wildlife Service rushed to create Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in 1986, protecting what undisturbed tracts they could, purchasing others already converted to agriculture, and replanting trees.

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They don't call it the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge for nothing!

Ivory-billed woodpecker found "Cached Away"

The strongest recent evidence: seven sightings and 4 seconds of blurry video from the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas.

What's that knocking? Sound evidence offered for long-lost woodpecker

All the sightings reported in Science took place in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Since the announcement, several people a day call the refuge to say they've seen an ivory-billed woodpecker.

Comeback bird: tales from the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker

While kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge on Feb.

News release: long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas

Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans for a proposed Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, including lands to be acquired with more than $3 million from federal duck stamp sales.

Of Ducks, Delfa, and the Last of the Big Woods

In February 2004, Gene Sparling of Hot Springs was kayaking on Bayou DeView in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge when he saw an ivory-billed woodpecker and reported it.

Woodpecker survives legal battles: bird gives activists new ammunition

11, 2004, when Gene Sparling, kayaking in the bayous of Arkansas's Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, saw a large, red-crested woodpecker.

Alive and knocking: glimpses of an ivory-billed legend

In Arkansas, that addiction threatens the 160,000-acre White River and 45,000-acre Cache River National Wildlife Refuges, where immense flocks of wintering ducks converge with 230 Neotropical migrants and other species.

NWF View

Army Corps of Engineers to abandon a proposed channelization project on Arkansas' White River that would threaten the White River and Cache River National Wildlife Refuges, home to some of the most diverse plant and animal life in North America.