2025 Hamden Slough NWR Haying Package

2025 Hamden Slough NWR Haying Package
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The Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District (WMD) is offering, to all eligible applicants, an opportunity to enter into a Cooperative Agricultural Agreement (CAA) to conduct haying on the Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge. Haying will be used to manage the grassland habitat and improve conditions for nesting waterfowl.

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View of Hesby pond at Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge.
Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge
Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge is located in western Becker County and was established in 1989. Restoration efforts have attracted a very high concentration of waterfowl and shorebirds. The refuge was designated an Important Bird Area by the Minnesota Audubon Society.
National Wildlife Refuge
Audubon,MN
Swans resting on a foggy pond at sunrise.
Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District
The district manages hundreds of federally owned waterfowl productions areas in Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman and Polk Counties in northwest Minnesota. The district is divided into three general landscape areas: the Red River Valley floodplain, the glacial moraine/prairie pothole region, and the...
National Wildlife Refuge
Detroit Lakes,MN
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