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Refuge Management  
   

Refuge Manager: Paul Casey
Deputy Refuge Manager: Ian Drew

Photo of misty Magalloway River, USFWS image/ Ian Drew

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency in the Department of the Interior, manages Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge for the people of the United States as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.  The Service is the principal agency through which the federal government carries out its responsibilities to conserve, protect and enhance the nation's fish and wildlife resources.

Lake Umbagog NWR conserves more than 20,500 acres under Service management. In addition, the states of New Hampshire and Maine have each acquired over 1000 acres in the vicinity of Umbagog Lake. This combination of ownerships and easements protects nearly all of the Umbagog Lake shoreline in New Hampshire and significant lengths of shoreline along the Androscoggin, Magalloway, Dead Cambridge, and Rapid rivers.

Lake Umbagog NWR provides long-term conservation of important wetland and upland wildlife habitat for migratory birds and threatened and endangered species.  The refuge provides management and enhancement of habitat for wildlife populations, thereby contributing to biological diversity, and provides environmental education opportunities and wildlife-oriented public uses.  

Years of work have been invested in planning, in order to continue to provide for public use, as well as maintain wildlife and wildlife habitat in the area.  Partnerships involving the states of New Hampshire and Maine, timber companies, conservation organizations, private landowners and the Service, cooperatively protect important lands surrounding Umbagog Lake.  

 

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Photo of Magalloway  River taken by Refuge staff, Ian Drew

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