Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge covers 12,383 acres on the western edge of the Great Plains, near Great Falls, Montana. The lake is actually a 5,000 acre shallow marsh in a closed basin created by the last continental glacier to occupy the area.

Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge

Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge

Located in the Milk River Valley of Phillips County the refuge is made up of approximately 6,616 acres of wetlands and 8,935 acres of uplands.

Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

Those seeking wild game in its natural habitat will be rewarded at the third largest refuge in the continental U.S., Missouri River Country's Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Bugling elk, herds of mule deer, red fox and coyotes call this place home.

Crown Butte Preserve

Crown Butte Preserve

If you've admired the flat-topped buttes you can see from Great Falls on the western horizon in front of the mountains, you can see one up close in a day trip to Crown Butte Preserve. This is a fall or spring trip since rattlesnakes abound in the summer.

Fort Peck Wildlife Station

Fort Peck Wildlife Station is a field unit of Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is about 1.2 million acres of Missouri River Breaks habitat extending from Fort Peck Dam upstream to above the Fred Robinson Bridge south of Malta.

Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge

Hailstone National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Big Lake Complex, a large drainage area beginning with Hailstone to the north and ending at the state-owned and managed Big Lake to the south. This complex is one of the most productive areas in central Montana for waterfowl.

Halfbreed National Wildlife Refuge

Halfbreed National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Big Lake Complex, a large drainage area with Halfbreed being centrally located in the complex. The refuge receives the freshest water and most of the migratory bird use.

Jordan Wildlife Station

Jordan Wildlife Station National Wildlife Refuge is a part of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge which is a l.3 million-acre wildlife refuge surrounding Fort Peck reservoir.

Kirk Wildlife Refuge

Kirk Wildlife Refuge encompasses 17 acres. The area was acquired from the Kirk family. It provides a fishing access along the Gallatin River. This is a day use site with only hand launching of boats. Open all season.

Lake Mason National Wildlife Refuge

Lake Mason National Wildlife Refuge consists of 3 separate parcels: the North Unit, Willow Creek Unit and Lake Mason Unit. The history behind the refuge is unique; easements were signed in 1937 to provide an area for nesting migratory birds.

Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge

Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge

Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge is located along the Bitterroot River in the scenic and historic Bitterroot Valley of western Montana.

Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge

The habitat diversity of the Refuge supports a wide variety of wildlife species. At least 14 species of migratory and breeding waterfowl utilize wetland areas. These include mallard, gadwall, cinnamon teal, green-winged teal, lesser scaup, wood duck, redhead, common goldeneye and Canada geese.

Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located on the heavily glaciated rolling plains of northeastern Montana, between the Missouri River and the Canadian Border.

National Bison Range

National Bison Range

The National Bison Range is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System. It was established in 1908 and is one of the oldest wildlife refuges in the nation. A large portion of the 18,500-acre Range consists of native Palouse Prairie.

Pine Butte Swamp Preserve

Pine Butte Swamp Preserve located west of Choteau; is a unique wetland encompassing 18,000 acres along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front managed and protected as a Nature Conservancy Preserve.

Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Red Rock Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in the extreme southwest portion of Montana near the Idaho border. The Centennial Mountains rise steeply to the south providing a scenic atmosphere.

Sand Creek Wildlife Station

The west end of the Charles M. Russell NWR, managed from the Sand Creek Wildlife Stations, provides a unique representation of the rugged Missouri River Breaks and adjacent sagebrush grassland. The landscape is little changed from the time that Lewis and Clark came up the valley in 1804.

Skalkaho Wildlife Preserve

This isolated, mountainous 23,000-acre wildlife preserve is forested with dense spruce and subalpine fir, amid beautiful lush meadows. The area is totally closed to hunting.

Sundance Lodge and Four Dances Area

Sundance Lodge and Four Dances Area offers great bird watching trails where pheasants, ducks, mallards and other waterfowl can be spotted.

Swan River National Wildlife Refuge

The Swan River National Wildlife Refuge is located in northwest Montana, 32 miles southeast of the town of Creston, in the serene and picturesque Swan Valley Mountain Range.

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