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Passage Key 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.
- October 10, 1905: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Passage Key Reservation (federal bird reservation). A shifting sand key at the mouth of Tampa Bay where seabirds and shorebirds nest.
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His proclamations and orders
- October 10, 1905: Executive Order 357-B, “Establishing Passage Key Reservation as a Preserve and Breeding Ground for Native Birds.” Today’s site began with this document. Renamed a national wildlife refuge in 1940; now a small sandbar closed to the public.
Executive Order 357-B 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
- Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 3 miles
- De Soto National Memorial NPS · 7 miles
- Pinellas National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 8 miles
- Island Bay National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 63 miles
- Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 69 miles
- Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 79 miles