Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

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Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 state of the United States that share sovereignty with the federal government of the United States . Because of this shared sovereignty, an United States is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of Domicile ....
of Wyoming

Wyoming

The State of Wyoming is a sparsely populated U.S. state in the Northwestern United States of the United States. The majority of the state is dominated by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the easternmost section of the state is a high altitude prairie region known as the High Plains ....
and includes 26,400 acres (106 km²). Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in southwestern Wyoming. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The Shoshone

Shoshone

The Shoshone are a Native Americans in the United States in the United States with three large divisions: the Northern, the Western and the Eastern....
Indians inhabited the region since the year 1300 and the current name is a derivative of the Shoshone language word "Sisk-a-dee-agie", which translated means "river of the prairie hen".

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Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state

U.S. state

Wyoming

Shoshone

Green River

Green River may refer to:...
for a distance of 36 miles (56 km) and the river provides a water source for shrubs and Cottonwood

Cottonwood

The cottonwoods are three species of poplars in the section Aegiros of the genus Populus, native to North America, Europe and western Asia....
trees which flourish in an otherwise arid region. The refuge area was first visited by white explorers in 1811 and was later a crossroads for the Oregon

Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory....
and Mormon Trail

Mormon Trail

The Mormon Trail or Mormon Pioneer Trail is the route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846-1857....
s; many of the original wagon tracks left by early pioneers can still be seen.

220 species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
of birds have been identified on the refuge including migratory bird species that use the refuge for nesting. Trumpeter swan

Trumpeter Swan

The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator, is the largest native North American bird, if measured in terms of weight and length, and is the largest living waterfowl species on earth....
s, Bald eagle

Bald Eagle

The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the List of national birds and national symbol of the United States....
s, Sage grouse

Sage Grouse

The Greater Sage-grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, is the largest Tetraonidae in North America. Its range is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada....
, and numerous species of duck

Duck

Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article; they do not represent a clade but a form taxon, being the Anatidae not considered swans and goose....
s can be found. Dozens of species of mammal

Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s including coyote

Coyote

The coyote , also known as the prairie wolf, is a species of canid found throughout North America and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States, and Canada....
, porcupine

Porcupine

Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp Spine , or quills, that defend them from predators. They are endemic in both the Old World and the New World....
, pronghorn

Pronghorn

The pronghorn , also pronghorn antelope or prong buck, is a species of ungulate mammal native to interior western and central North America....
, mule deer

Mule Deer

The mule deer is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. It gets its name from its large mule-like ears. Adult male mule deer are called bucks, adult females are called does, and young of both sexes are called fawns....
, bobcat

Bobcat

The Bobcat is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae. With twelve recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to northern east Mexico, including most of the continental United States....
and moose

Moose

File:Alces alces NA.svgThe moose or elk , , is the largest Extant taxon species in the deer family . Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a "twig-like" configuration....
are indigenous to the region and protected under law. A catch and release program for native fish such as the Cutthroat

Cutthroat trout

The cutthroat trout is a species of freshwater fish in the Salmonidae family of order Salmoniformes. It is one of the many fish species colloquially known as trout....
and Brown trout

Brown trout

The brown trout and the sea trout are fish of the same species.They are distinguished chiefly by the fact that the brown trout is largely a fresh water fish, while the sea trout shows anadromous reproduction, migrating to the oceans for much of its life and returning to freshwater only to Spawn ....
ensures protection of these less common fish species.

Visitors to the refuge should follow Interstate 80

Interstate 80

Interstate 80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States . It connects downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City....
west from Green River, Wyoming

Green River, Wyoming

Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state....
for 6 miles (9.6 km) to exit 372. Travel north from there for 27 miles (43 km) to the refuge main entrance.

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