Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Maplink Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge is located just north of Bastrop, Louisiana in Morehouse Parish, north central Louisiana. The refuge was established in 1988 with the southeast's first fee title transfer of a Farmer's Home Administration tract (466 acres) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A free lease of Script error: No such module "convert". from International Paper increased the refuge to the current Script error: No such module "convert"..
Wildlife and habitat
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Handy Brake NWR has a wood duck nest box project. Water levels are manipulated to provide optimal habitat for nesting and wintering ducks. The refuge lands cleared for agriculture prior to the establishment of the refuge have been reforested to bottomland hardwoods.
An observation platform overlooks a permanent wetland, which is excellent habitat for wintering waterfowl, wading birds and many other wetland dependent species. Prairie grasses were established between the water and the observation tower. Periodic mowing or burning of this prairie area prevents woody vegetation from obscuring the view from the platform and provides habitat for grassland birds and other wildlife species.
Handy Brake is managed as a waterfowl sanctuary and access is restricted to the area immediately adjacent to the observation tower.
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Refbegin/styles.css" />
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Handy Brake National Wildlife Refuge Template:Webarchive - US Fish & Wildlife Service
Template:Protected Areas of Louisiana Template:National Wildlife Refuges of the United States