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To locate the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge: from Hwy. 93 turn west on Hwy. 212. Continue 3 km to the entrance. Turn on the dirt road, go through the gate and continue to the parking area, 900 meters.

We were there in early March and the landscape had not fully awakened to spring. It was late enough in the year that there was no ice to be seen and there were a few Redwing Blackbirds flitting about in the reeds. A few Canada Geese arrived while we were there and the odd duck could be seen at a distance on the water.

Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge

The Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge is home to an abundant array of waterfowl: mallards, northern shovelers, gadwalls, redheads and ruddy ducks. Non-breeding white pelicans spend the summer feeding and loafing. There is an active rookery of great–blue herons and another of double–crested cormorants.

Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge is superimposed on a reservoir that contains about 1,672 acres of water at full pool level. The Refuge consists of 390 acres of upland habitat in a narrow band around the reservoir.

Grasslands surrounding the refuge include 3,420 acres of Montana State Wildlife Management Areas, approximately 3,000 acres of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal lands, 3,160 acres of Federal Waterfowl Production Areas and 6,400 acres of Fish and Wildlife Service conservation easements which preserve wildlife habitat by preventing housing development and wetland drainage.
From the US Fish and Wildlife Service