National Wildlife Refuge · FWS · CA, OR · Roosevelt connection
Lower Klamath 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 8, 1908: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Klamath Lake Reservation (federal bird reservation). Marshes around Lower Klamath Lake, often called the nation's first refuge set aside for waterfowl.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
His proclamations and orders
- August 8, 1908: Executive Order 924, “Establishing Klamath Lake Reservation in Oregon and California as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site began with this document. 50,092 acres today.
Executive Order 924 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
- Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 12 miles
- Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 13 miles
- Butte Valley National Grassland USFS · 15 miles
- Lava Beds National Monument NPS · 17 miles
- Tule Lake National Monument NPS · 19 miles
- Sattitla Highlands National Monument USFS · 26 miles