Almena Diversion Dam The Almena Diversion Dam is located 8 miles east of Norton, Kansas along the valley of Prairie Dog Creek in north-central Kansas and about 11 miles downstream from Norton Dam. The site includes 130 land acres and 12 water acres. Hunting for pheasant, waterfowl, deer, and dove is available. Prairie Dog State Park and Keith Sebelius Reservoir are nearby. The Almena Unit is part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Kanaska Division. Other information on Kansas recreation.
Anita Reservoir Anita Dam and Reservoir, features of the Huntley Project, are located 6 miles southeast of Ballantine, Montana near Billings. This offstream storage dam was completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937. Water is released from Anita Reservoir into the Reservoir Canal which flows across Fly Creek to the vicinity of Pompeys Pillar. As the first representative of the United States in the Upper Missouri Valley, Captain Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition scratched his name and the date of July 25, 1806 on Pompeys Pillar, a large rock landmark overlooking the Yellowstone River. The Crow Indian Reservation and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument are nearby. The Anita Reservoir, with 32 surface acres and 2 miles of shoreline, offers seasonal opportunities for crappie, catfish, and largemouth bass. No facilities are available.
Arcadia Diversion Dam Arcadia Diversion Dam is on the Middle Loup River about 8.5 miles upstream from Arcadia, Nebraska. The project is part of the Farwell Unit, Middle Loup Division of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The area is managed by the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, 402-471-0641, for a wildlife management area. The site includes 777 land acres and 109 water acres and is home to pheasant, waterfowl, deer, dove, and squirrel.
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Located in Southwest Montana, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the national forests in Montana. The forest offers breath-taking scenery for a wide variety of recreation pursuits. Whether it's wilderness trekking in the Anaconda-Pintler or Lee Metcalf wildernesses, driving the Gravelly Range Road or Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway, or camping in one of the 50 small to medium-sized campgrounds in the forest, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge has it all. Winter enthusiasts find snowmobiling, cross-country skiing trails, as well as downhill skiing at Discovery, near Anaconda, and Maverick Mountain, near Dillion. Summertime affords chances to hike and drive primitive routes to high-mountain lakes or to drive more improved roads to places like Delmoe and Wade lakes. The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail and Nez Perce Historic Trail pass through the forest. Georgetown Lake offers winter and summer recreation near Philipsburg. At the ghost towns of Elkhorn and Coolidge, you can relive Montana's boom and bust past. Sheepshead Reacreation Area, north of Butte, offers pleasant picnicking and lake fishing, accessible for the disabled. The Forest covers 3.32 million acres.
Benton Lake NWR Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located on the western edge of the northern Great Plains near Great Falls, Montana. The "lake" is actually a 5,800 acre shallow marsh in a closed basin created by the last continental glacier to occupy the area. The gently rolling refuge uplands are dominated by 6,000 acres of native short grass prairie. Approximately 700 acres of former cropland has been planted to dense nesting cover, a mix of tall growing grasses and legumes. Water for refuge marshes is supplied by natural runoff from the small Lake Creek watershed and by water pumped from Muddy Creek, a stream 15 miles west of the refuge. The refuge wetlands support a great variety of water birds with both nesting and migration habitat. Up to 100,000 ducks, 40,000 geese, 5,000 tundra swans, and occasionally bald eagles and peregrines may be observed in migration. Up to 20,000 ducks, 500 canada geese, 10,000 franklin's gulls are produced each year along with many shorebirds, eared grebes, white-faced ibis and other species. A nine mile auto tour route is open to the public for wildlife observation. About 4000 acres is open to public hunting of game birds.
Benton Lake WMD Benton Lake Wetland Management District (WMD) covers 25,000 square miles in ten counties of north-central Montana. It includes the western-most extension of the glaciated prairie pothole habitat of the Northern Great Plains and the Blackfoot River valley, a glaciated inter-mountain valley west of the continental divide. The 21 waterfowl production areas (WPAs) in the district are extremely varied in habitat types and include prairie grasslands, fresh and saline wetlands, riparian and montane forests, and rivers. Habitat conservation easements protect both wetlands and upland habitat in the WMD from conversion to uses incompatible with wildlife. The primary role of the WMD is conservation of habitat for waterfowl but a wide variety of other species are also benefitted including sandhill cranes, bald eagles, grizzly bears, deer and elk. Management practices include reseeding grasses and forbs on former cropland and restoring drained wetlands. Occasionally burning, haying or grazing are used as tools to stimulate growth of vegetation or to manage weeds. All WPAs except one are open to public hunting in accordance with State of Montana regulations.
