National Wildlife Refuge · FWS · NY · Roosevelt connection
Montezuma 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
His proclamations and orders
- June 13, 1905: Proclamation 575, “Establishing the Montezuma Forest Reserve, Colorado.” Today’s site no longer exists. Divided between the San Juan and Uncompahgre in 1947.
Proclamation 575 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
- Women's Rights National Historical Park NPS · 9 miles
- Harriet Tubman National Historical Park NPS · 14 miles
- Finger Lakes National Forest USFS · 36 miles
- Fort Stanwix National Monument NPS · 68 miles
- Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 81 miles
- Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site NPS · 106 miles