Fact Sheet

• Established in 1993

• Responsible for managing and protecting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service interests in Stutsman and Wells Counties.

• Interests include 128 Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA’s) totaling 35,317 acres and 5 Wildlife Development Areas (WDA’s) totaling 3,401 acres.
  

  • 27,100 acres of native prairie, seeded natives, and tame grasses
  • 11,581 acres of temporary, seasonal, semi-permanent and permanent wetlands
    
    
• Over 82,000 wetland and grassland acres are protected in the District by easements.
  
  
• Halfway Lake Easement National Wildlife Refuge covering 160 acres.
  
  
• Medicine Lake WPA, the nation’s smallest WPA, is only .97 acres
  
  
• Chase Lake WPA (3,013 acres) and Woodworth Station WPA (2,647 acres) are the two largest WPA’s in the District.

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