Refuge Objectives:  These are the underlying management goals for the refuge.

• Maintain and protect the coastal maritime forest, marsh and beach communities.
• Provide habitat for migratory birds, wading and shorebirds, and native fauna.
• Provide habitat for endangered and threatened loggerhead sea turtles, wood storks, bald eagles, peregrine falcons and piping plovers.
• Provide recreation and environmental education for the public.

Management Tools:  These are the tools refuge staff use to accomplish these goals.

• Prescribed fire and wildfire suppression
• Sea turtle nest monitoring - This is done on Wassaw Island through a partnership with the Savannah Science Museum and their "Caretta Research Project".
• Managed white-tailed deer hunts.
• Exotic species control
• Law enforcement
• Education/Interpretation