Welcome to
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Our
headquarters are located in South Central North Dakota near the
community of Moffit. Long Lake is an alkaline lake that is up to
2 miles wide and 16 miles long. The Refuge contains 22,300 acres,
16,000 of which are lake bottom, with mixed-grass prairie, smaller
wetlands, and cultivated uplands on the remaining 6,300 acres.
The Refuge was listed as a top 10 birding site by Wildbird Magazine. It was also recently designated as both a Globally Important Bird Area and a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network(WHSRN) site*. Long Lake was selected as a WHSRN Site because of its importance as both a breeding and migratory stopover site for more than 20,000, shorebirds, annually.
"Wild
beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the
people who are alive today, but the property of unknown generations
whose belongings we have no right to squander"
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
The Refuge hours are Monday - Friday - 7:30am - 4pm
Last updated:
March 1, 2012
