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Big Muddy NFWR--Overton Bottoms North Unit
Coordinates: 38.9567391, -92.5670242 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Overton Bottoms South Unit
Coordinates: 38.9436028, -92.5387833 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Berger Bend
Coordinates: 38.6798981, -91.3297866 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Lisbon Bottom Unit
Coordinates: 39.1162102, -92.9292297 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Jackass Bend Unit
Coordinates: 39.2069849, -94.1854477 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Baltimore Bottom unit
Coordinates: 39.2333169, -93.590126 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Cranberry Bend Unit--Lafayette Co.
Coordinates: 39.2361922, -93.4808421 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--St. Aubert Island Unit
Coordinates: 38.6705005, -91.828537 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Boone's Crossing Unit
Coordinates: 38.6876537, -90.6365204 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Cora Island Unit
Coordinates: 38.8302197, -90.1778307 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Cranberry Bend Unit--Saline Co.
Coordinates: 39.2575123, -93.4133148 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Muddy NFWR--Jameson Island unit
Coordinates: 39.0765094, -92.9340363 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
A series of locations along the Missouri River. Some sites are only accessible by boat.

The historic Missouri River was nicknamed the “Big Muddy” because it ran murky with sediments it carried, also created beneficial wildlife habitat. The rivers ability to carve through its floodplain and create side channels, wetlands and oxbow lakes attracted and sustained wildlife since the retreating of the glaciers over 10,000 years ago. Changes began to occur on the Missouri River soon after the journey of Lewis and Clark described its wildlife and wonders to the world. Over the next century, more than 300 steamships sank in the Missouri River. Its murky, swift water hid snags and shallow shoals ready to rip through a ship’s hull. Efforts to control the river began full scale at the turn of the 20th century. Congress enacted the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project to control the river by building pile dikes to direct flow and prevent bank erosion.

By 1980, the Missouri River had been channelized 735 miles from Sioux City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Missouri. Channelization reduced fish and wildlife habitat by separating the river from its floodplain. From Big Muddy National Fish & Wildlife Refuge Website



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