Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge is located 60mi northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., and encompasses 36000acre of Pearl River Basin swampland.HistoryOn June 30, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-288 authorizing the 40000acre Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Washington and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana, and Pearl River County, Mississippi. Since that time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been acquiring bottomland hardwood habitat in the Pearl River Basin. On December 13, 1989, Congress authorized a boundary expansion for Bogue Chitto NWR that included an additional 8400acre of bottomland hardwoods in St. Tammany Parish. To date, some 36447acre have been placed under refuge management. The refuge is still in an acquisition phase.AccessAccess is primarily by boat on the refuge's Louisiana side and road access is available on the refuge's Mississippi side. In the summer of 2002, a new 0.75mi walking trail was unveiled on the Louisiana side of the Refuge that allows access into the interior of Bogue Chitto's habitat.
