Project has three public access points to Ouachita River and Felsenthal
National Wildlife Refuge with boating, fishing, camping, and day use. Pool
extends from H.K. Thatcher Lock & Dam south to the Felsenthal Lock & Dam
located 5 mi NE of Huttig, AR on county road.

Project has three public access points to Ouachita River and Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge with boating, fishing, camping, and day use.  Pool extends from H.K. Thatcher Lock & Dam south to the Felsenthal Lock & Dam located 5 mi NE of Huttig, AR on county road.

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A ranger leads a group of people doing yoga on the beach.

Ouachita-Black River - Felsenthal Pool

Established in 1975, Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in
southeast Arkansas, approximately eight miles west of the town of Crossett.
Named for a small community located at its southwest corner, this 65,000 acre
refuge contains an abundance of water resources dominated by the Ouachita and
Saline Rivers and the Felsenthal Pool. This low lying area is dissected by an
intricate system of rivers, creeks, sloughs, buttonbush swamps and lakes
throughout a vast bottomland hardwood forest that gradually rises to an upland
forest community. Historically, periodic flooding of the "bottoms" during
winter and spring provided excellent wintering waterfowl habitat. These
wetlands, in combination with the pine and upland hardwood forest on the
higher ridges, support a wide diversity of native plants and animals

Established in 1975, Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in southeast Arkansas, approximately eight miles west of the town of Crossett. Named for a small community located at its southwest corner, this 65,000 acre refuge contains an abundance of water resources dominated by the Ouachita and Saline Rivers and the Felsenthal Pool.



This low lying area is dissected by an intricate system of rivers, creeks, sloughs, buttonbush swamps and lakes throughout a vast bottomland hardwood forest that gradually rises to an upland forest community.  Historically, periodic flooding of the "bottoms" during winter and spring provided excellent wintering waterfowl habitat. These wetlands, in combination with the pine and upland hardwood forest on the higher ridges, support a wide diversity of native plants and animals

Bird's eye view of the park

Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge

Upper Ouachita NWR, located north of Sterlington, Louisiana, lies on the
western edge of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. It was established in
November of 1978 “for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other
management purpose, for migratory birds” (Migratory Bird Conservation Act, 16
U.S.C. 715d); and for “…the conservation of the wetlands of the nation in
order to maintain the public benefits they provide and to help fulfill
international obligations contained in various migratory bird treaties and
conventions…” (16 U.S.C. 3901b). Additionally, the refuge provides habitat for
alligators, forest interior songbirds, bald eagles, Louisiana black bear, the
little known Rafinesque's big-eared bat, migrating shorebirds and the
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. The refuge is bisected by 18 miles of the
Ouachita River, which is in the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System,
and is the drainage for numerous creeks, sloughs and oxbow lakes. Cypress
swamps, bottomland hardwood and upland forests complete the landscape that is
habitat for a diverse group of plants and animals.  
  
In years of normal or above rainfall, the refuge’s bottomland hardwood forest
is a very important overflow area for the Ouachita River floodplain. High
water levels, which usually occur between January and June, can flood up to
87% of the refuge. The wetland forests not only provide habitat to wetland
dependent wildlife, they also reduce damage from flooding in developed areas,
filter silt and other particles from the water, help neutralize pollutants and
provide recharge areas for aquifers.

<p>Upper Ouachita NWR, located north of Sterlington, Louisiana, lies on the western edge of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. It was established in November of 1978 “for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds” (Migratory Bird Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 715d); and for “…the conservation of the wetlands of the nation in order to maintain the public benefits they provide and to help fulfill international obligations contained in various migratory bird treaties and conventions…” (16 U.S.C. 3901b).  Additionally, the refuge provides habitat for alligators, forest interior songbirds, bald eagles, Louisiana black bear, the little known Rafinesque's big-eared bat, migrating shorebirds and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. The refuge is bisected by 18 miles of the Ouachita River, which is in the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System, and is the drainage for numerous creeks, sloughs and oxbow lakes. Cypress swamps, bottomland hardwood and upland forests complete the landscape that is habitat for a diverse group of plants and animals.<br><br>In years of normal or above rainfall, the refuge’s bottomland hardwood forest is a very important overflow area for the Ouachita River floodplain. High water levels, which usually occur between January and June, can flood up to 87% of the refuge. The wetland forests not only provide habitat to wetland dependent wildlife, they also reduce damage from flooding in developed areas, filter silt and other particles from the water, help neutralize pollutants and provide recharge areas for aquifers.</p>

Ouachita-Black River - Felsenthal Pool

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