Optima National Wildlife Refuge


	Optima National Wildlife Refuge
	Rt. 1 Box 68 Butler, OK 73625 E-mail: Phone Number: 580-664-2205
	Visit the Refuge's Web Site: http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/oklahoma/Optima/

Optima National Wildlife Refuge
Located in the middle of the Oklahoma panhandle, the 4,333-acre Optima National Wildlfie Refuge is made up of grasslands and wooded bottomland on the Coldwater Creek arm of the Optima Reservoir.

Getting There . . .
Follow Highway 3 two miles morth of Hardesty, Oklahoma.

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The bottomland habitat is dominated by mature cottonwood and tallgrass prairie species such as big bluestem, little bluestem and indiangrass. Shortgrass prairie species such as buffalo grass, blue gramma, sandsage, and yucca are found at the higher elevations.

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Optima Dam was completed in 1978. The intended purpose of the refuge was to provide migration and wintering habitat for the shortgrass prairie population of Canada geese and the high plains population of mallards. Unfortunately, the impoundment has never risen enough to flood any of the refuge lands. The lack of water has reduced the potential waterfowl management but provides prime habitat for many resident wildlife species.

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