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Minidoka 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.
- February 25, 1909: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Minidoka Reservation (federal bird reservation). Lake Walcott on the Snake River; re-designated as a wildlife refuge in 1936 and still protected today.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · en.wikisource.org · presidency.ucsb.edu · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
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
- Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve NPS · 39 miles
- Curlew National Grassland USFS · 40 miles
- City Of Rocks National Reserve NPS · 45 miles
- Minidoka National Historic Site NPS · 45 miles
- Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument NPS · 81 miles
- Golden Spike National Historical Park NPS · 83 miles