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Area
  
46.89 kmĀ²

Nearest city
  
Ortonville

Established
  
1975

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Governing body
  
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Website
  
Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge

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Big stone national wildlife refuge


Straddling the headwaters of the Minnesota River in extreme west-central Minnesota, Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge is within the heart of the tallgrass prairie's historic range. Today, less than one-percent of tallgrass prairie remains.

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Big Stone Refuge serves as the "keeper of the prairie" by working to maintain and restore native prairie habitat while providing optimum nesting cover for waterfowl and other grassland nesting birds. The refuge contains 11,521 acres (46.62 km2): 1,028 acres in Big Stone County and 10,493 acres (42.46 km2) in Lac qui Parle County. The refuge is located in Minnesota's 7th congressional district.

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The primary refuge purposes stated in authorizing documents are flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife conservation. The refuge's principal objective is to provide optimum nesting cover for ground-nesting waterfowl production. Approximately 30,000 people visit the refuge annually.

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