Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge
Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge
Berthold, ND 58718
Phone:701-468-5467
Web: uppersouris.fws.gov
Established: 1935.
Location:In Souris River Valley in northwestern North Dakota.
Facilities:Visitor contact station, viewing sites, picnic areas, fishing piers, trails, auto tour route, (é).
Activities:Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, hiking, berry picking, cross-country skiing, educational programs.
Special Features:Focal point of the refuge is 10,000-acre Lake Darling, constructed in 1936 to provide water to downstream marshes on J. Clark Salyer and Upper Souris NWRs.
Habitats: 32,092 acres including river bottom woodlands, flood plains, rolling hills with native mixed grasses, and steep, brush-covered coulees.
Access: Daily between 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., year round.
Wild life: Geese, tundra swans, pintails, canvasbacks, redheads, buffleheads, muskrats, and white-tailed deer.
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