Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge

Nebraska


Has marshes and other open areas on the river that are little changed in centuries. A winding driving route shows you what the land crossed by the Missouri once looked like before farms and development forever changed things. It's 18 miles north of Omaha near Fort Atkinson. Recent record flooding means that the refuge is sometimes closed.


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