The unmanned refuges, Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) and wetland easements, although managed primarily for waterfowl production, furnish good habitat for upland game, big game, and other wildlife. The Refuges and WPAs contain a wide variety of marshes, lakes, and tame grasslands, woodlands, and food plots.

Monitoring/Research is being done at Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on all the following subjects with our limited staff and the help of volunteers.

This research includes total avian species richness, endangered/threatened species, including the piping plover, spring and fall waterfowl migration, duck production estimates with research on nest searches, nest success, nest predation and artificial nest structures. marsh/water birds, raptors, and other migratory bird observations are noted as part of this research.

A breeding bird survey and a mourning dove survey are managed mostly by volunteers.

Research has been done on grazing influences on non-game breeding birds, on game mammals, and resident wildlife.

In 2001 malformed frog monitoring was done on WPAs and Long Lake NWR.

Botulism is a big part of our disease prevention and control.