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Stump 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.
- March 9, 1905: as President, Theodore Roosevelt set aside Stump Lake Reservation (federal bird reservation). North Dakota's first federal bird reservation: about 27 acres of islands in a prairie lake, still a refuge today.
archive.org · standardebooks.org · fws.gov · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
His proclamations and orders
- March 9, 1905: Executive Order 296-A, “Creating Stump Lake Reservation, North Dakota, as Preserve and Breeding Ground for Birds.” Today’s site began with this document. Administered from the Devils Lake Wetland Management District; closed to the public, its islands entirely under water.
Executive Order 296-A 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
- Rose Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 5 miles
- Lambs Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 17 miles
- Johnson Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 17 miles
- Wood Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 18 miles
- White Horse Hill National Game Preserve FWS · 25 miles
- Sibley Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 27 miles