DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges

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From U.S. Department of the Interior:

DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges in Iowa and Nebraska stand on the wide plain formed by the flooding and shifting of the Missouri River. Each spring and fall since the end of the last ice age, spectacular flights of ducks and geese have marked the changing seasons along this traditional waterfowl flyway. Land clearing, drainage projects and flood control measures during the past 150 years have transformed the Missouri River floodplain from diverse wildlife habitat to farmland. DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is part of a network of refuges devoted to preserving and restoring increasingly scarce habitat for migratory waterfowl and other wildlife. Photo by Andrew Loftis (www.sharetheexperience.org).

 — at DeSoto and Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuges. 

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