10 listings selected
Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge
Blackbeard Island offers a variety of recreational activities year-round. Wildlife observation, especially bird watching, is excellent throughout the year.
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge occupies the upper portion of the Corps of Engineers project Walter F. George Reservoir (Lake Eufaula). Concentrations of ducks, geese, wood storks, sandhill cranes, raptors, wading birds, shorebirds and songbirds. Several rookeries present along with bald eagle and osprey nests.
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
The refuge’s 2,765 acres consist of saltwater marsh, grassland, mixed deciduous woods and cropland.
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Established in 1937, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge encompasses approximately 396,000 acres and extends 38 miles north to south and 25 miles east to west. It is one of the oldest and most well-preserved freshwater areas in America.
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
Created by an executive order from Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, the 35,000 acre Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge serves as a model of forest ecosystem management.
Savannah National Wildlife Refuge
28,168 acres of freshwater marshes, tidal rivers and creeks and bottomland hardwoods.
Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge
Wassaw, one of Georgia’s coastal barrier islands, was designated a National Wildlife Refuge on October 20, 1969. Unlike many of Georgia’s Golden Isles, little development and few management practices have modified Wassaw’s primitive character. The 10,053-acre refuge includes beaches with rolling dunes, live oak and slash pine woodlands, and vast salt marshes.