Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Wyoming

Wyoming

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 and includes 26,657 acres (106 km²). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The refuge lies along a 20 mile (32 km) stretch of the Bear River

Bear River (Utah)

The Bear River is a river, approximately long, in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho, and northern Utah, in the United States. The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain...

, regarded as the finest Redhead duck habitat in the region. Other nesting and or migratory bird species known to inhabit the refuge include White-faced Ibis

White-faced Ibis

The White-faced Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This species breeds colonially in marshes, usually nesting in bushes or low trees. Its breeding range extends from the western USA south through Mexico, as well as from southeastern Brazil and southeastern Bolivia south to...

, Snowy Egret

Snowy Egret

The Snowy Egret is a small white heron. It is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas....

, Long-billed Curlew

Long-billed Curlew

The Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae. This species was also called "sicklebird" and the "candlestick bird". The species is native to central and western North America...

, Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

The Great Blue Heron is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England...

, American Bittern

American Bittern

The American Bittern is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae. New evidence has led the American Ornithologists' Union to move the heron family into the order Pelecaniformes .-Description:...

, and the Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night Heron

The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia .-Description:Adults are...

. Bald

Bald Eagle

The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. It is the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle...

 and Golden eagle

Golden Eagle

The Golden Eagle is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas...

s as well as Peregrine falcon

Peregrine Falcon

The Peregrine Falcon , also known as the Peregrine, and historically as the Duck Hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache"...

s are known to nest here during the spring and fall seasons. The refuge is considered the finest migratory bird sanctuary in the state of Wyoming.

Cokeville Meadows is a wetlands National Wildlife Refuge that is currently closed to the public because it is both relatively new and has no visitor services. Less than a third of the designated refuge lands are under U.S. Government administration, with the rest being purchased from private landowners but only if they are willing to sell. The refuge is managed from the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge

Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is located in western Sweetwater County in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 26,400 acres . Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is located in southwestern Wyoming. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency within the U.S...

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The refuge is located adjacent to U.S. Route 30

U.S. Route 30

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, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Cokeville, Wyoming

Cokeville, Wyoming

Cokeville is a town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 506 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cokeville is located at ....

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