Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge to Celebrate 100 Years of Conservation in 2008

TULELAKE, Calif. The Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge is inviting the public to help celebrate its 100th year of conserving and managing habitat for ducks, geese and other wildlife in the Klamath Basin. Today the refuge, the nations first dedicated specifically for waterfowl conservation, announced a series of special events that will commemorate the anniversary and connect people to the beauty, birds and wildlife of the Basin.

The Lower Klamath refuge was established on August 8, 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt as the nations first wildlife refuge set aside specifically for migratory waterfowl and other marsh birds.