About Us
Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1991 and consists of 4,199 acres in Grenada and Tallahatchie Counties of Mississippi.
Like many areas in the Mississippi Delta, the lands which form Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge are relatively flat and have been extensively cleared and drained for agriculture. Since these lands were acquired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1,300 acres have been removed from agricultural production and reforested with native hardwood species. Today, the refuge's largest unit is a patchwork of old fields and small scattered hardwood bottomland forests bisected by the meandering Tippo Bayou.
The refuge is complemented on the south by the 9,483-acre Malmaison Wildlife Management Area, managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.
Our Mission
Each unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System is established to serve a statutory purpose that targets the conservation of native species dependent on its lands and waters. Tallahatchie, along with the other refuges within the North Mississippi Refuge Complex, was established with the main purpose of providing habitat needs for migratory birds, with an emphasis on waterfowl.
“...for use as inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds,” and for conservation purposes, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act
Other Facilities in this Complex
Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge is managed as part of the North Mississippi Refuges Complex.
