Lacassine NWR

Financial
Impact of Refuge

• 8 - person staff.


• 38,500 visitors annually.


• Current year budget (FY 98) $629,200.

Refuge Objectives

• Protect and enhance refuge habitat
  for rare, endangered, and threatened species.


• Provide food, water, and cover for
  migratory waterfowl, especially pintails.



• Provide habitat for other migrating
  and resident wildlife.


• Provide wildlife oriented recreation.


• Provide interpretive and environmental
  education opportunities.

Management Tools

• Moist soil management.


• Cooperative farming.


• Coastal prairie restoration/management.


• Marsh restoration/management.



• Water level/water quality programs.


• Prescribed burning.


• Mechanical and chemical control of
  exotic and noxious plants.


• Alligator management with quota trapping
  program.


• Partnerships/challenge grants.



• Law enforcement.


• Education/interpretation.


• Research program.


• Volunteer/student intern program.

Public Use Opportunities

• Fishing.


• Hunting.


• Wildlife observation.



• Environmental education.


• Hiking/bicycling trails.


• Photography.

Calendar of Events

• January: youth waterfowl hunt.


• March-October: refuge fishing season.


• May: International Migratory Bird
  Day.


• June: National Fishing Week.


• October: National Wildlife Refuge
  Week and archery deer hunting.



• November-January: waterfowl hunting.


• December: Christmas Bird Count.