National Wildlife Refuge · FWS · ND · Roosevelt connection
White Horse Hill National Game Preserve
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.
- June 2, 1904: as President, Theodore Roosevelt signed the act creating Sully's Hill National Park. A wooded hill above Devils Lake, reserved by Roosevelt's proclamation of June 2, 1904. It became a game preserve in 1931 and, at the Spirit Lake Tribe's request, was renamed White Horse Hill National Game Preserve in 2019.
presidency.ucsb.edu · fws.gov · craterlakeinstitute.com · Roosevelt’s Public Lands
His proclamations and orders
- June 2, 1904: Proclamation 530, “Partial Opening of Lands of the Sisseton, Wahpeton and Cut-Head Bands of the Sioux Indian Tribe.” Today’s site began with this document. Formerly Sully's Hill Park and then Sullys Hill National Game Preserve; renamed in 2019 at the Spirit Lake Tribe's request.
Proclamation 530 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
- Wood Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 8 miles
- Silver Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 19 miles
- Rose Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 24 miles
- Stump Lake National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 25 miles
- Lake Alice National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 25 miles
- Arrowwood Wetland Management District FWS · 28 miles