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Lake Red Rock

Environmental Stewardship

Aerial view of Lake Red Rock dam

Lake Red Rock has the largest contiguous federal land base in the state of Iowa. The total amount of acreage totals more than 52,900 acres. Water covers 19,000 acres leaving 33,900 acres of hunting, recreation, and refuge land to manage. The environmental stewardship program addresses four major goals:

  1. Increase and maintain healthy and productive stands of bottom land and upland timber through various acceptable sivilcultural practices on a long term basis.
  2. To protect and improve the habitat of game and non-game species at the project.
  3. To enhance and encourage the safe utilization of project natural resources by providing utilization programs and improvement of accessibility.
  4. Restore and maintain native ecotypes through acceptable management practices on a long term basis.