National Wildlife Refuge · FWS · ND · Roosevelt connection
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Alerts and conditions
All clear. The managing agency, the National Weather Service and wildfire reporting show no current alerts.
History
The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.
The Roosevelt connection
Protected by T.R.
- August 28, 1908: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Chase Lake Reservation (federal bird reservation). Home to one of North America's largest nesting colonies of American white pelicans.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
His proclamations and orders
- August 28, 1908: Executive Order 932, “Establishing Chase Lake Reservation in North Dakota as Reserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site began with this document. 4,385 acres; managed in the Eastern North Dakota refuge complex.
Executive Order 932 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations
What to see and do
Plan your visit
Check the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for current hours, fees and access.
Whose lands these are
These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.
Pair it with
- Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 14 miles
- Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District FWS · 17 miles
- Slade National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 18 miles
- Lake George National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 19 miles
- Hutchinson Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 33 miles
- Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 33 miles