Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge Images and Information:

  • Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge was established on March 10, 1959 by President Dwight D Eisenhower. It is located at the southern end of the Great Salt Lake Desert and it was once a stop over for the Pony Express Route and an Overland Stage station.
  • Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge has 17,992 total acres, approximately 10,000 of those acres are wetlands.
  • More than 290 species of birds have been recorded at the 17,992 Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge. The area got its name from the fish in the springs which are left over from Lake Bonneville. The springs are fed from flows from underground artesian pressure and hydrothermal convection along fracture zones in the Great Basin Carbonate Rock and Alluvial Aquifer.
  • The roads to Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge can be dicey in winter because of snow and ice and slick during rainy weather any time of the year.
  • Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge is an oasis in Utah’s desert.
  • Click here for a printable Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge bird checklist.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge photos.

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