Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge

East meets west, north meets south... six different plant communities converge along the Niobrara River on Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge, thereby providing habitat for a rich and unusual diversity of wildlife. Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is 19,131 acres in size and is located in north-central Nebraska along the scenic Niobrara River: The Refuge, once a frontier military fort, supports an exceptional diversity of plants and wildlife representative of the northern Great Plains and geographic regions east, west, north, and south of here. Fort Niobrara NWR is one of over 540 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System ---- a network of lands set aside and managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service specifically for wildlife. The Refuge System is a living heritage, conserving wildlife and habitat for people today and generations to come.