Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Mississippi County, AR
N 35° 51.281 W 090° 08.223
15S E 758537 N 3971616
Big Lake can be found right outside of Manila, AR.
Waymark Code: WM2BD2
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2007
Views: 48
Refuge Facts
Established: 1915.
Acres: 11,038.
Located in Mississippi County, AR 18 miles west of the Mississippi River.
Other management: conservation easement--one in Green County; fee title tracts--two in three counties totaling 151 acres. Wilderness area of 2,100 acres. National Natural Landmark of 5,000 acres.
Location: the refuge is located on Highway 18, two miles east of Manila.
Natural History:
Refuge was once a portion of the Mississippi River, but now the Little River flows through it.
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 created the characteristics that made it a hunter/fisherman paradise. An extensive network of man-made ditches in the Missouri Bootheel drains approximately 2,000 square miles of farmland directly through the refuge detrimentally affecting the area.
Concentrations of wintering and migrating ducks.
Bald eagle and osprey nests.
Swamp 5,250 acres; open water 2,600 acres; bottomland hardwoods; 2,100 acres; marsh 300 acres; moist soil plants 250 acres; cropland 32 acres.
NWR or Protected Planet Website: [Web Link]
Point of Interest (POI): Scenic View
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