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Driftless Area Thomson, Illinois 61285
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The Savanna District is located in northwestern Illinois, east-central Iowa, and a small portion of southwestern Wisconsin. The District extends along both sides of the Mississippi River approximately 90 river miles from Dubuque, Iowa to Rock Island, Illinois. Management of this District covers three navigational pools: 12, 13, and 14. Nearly 46,000 acres of land owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are managed for fish, waterfowl, and other migratory birds, game birds, mammals, and a multitude of recreational activities. The Ingersoll Wetlands Learning Center is housed in the Visitor Center on Riverview Road north of the town of Thomson, Illinois.

The Savanna District includes a mosaic of upland and bottomland habitats. The uplands include hardwood forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields. The bottomlands include islands, peninsulas, and shoreline with over 29,000 acres of forests that flood annually. There are five wetland management units totaling over 11,000 acres.

Wildlife is abundant with wetland dependent species being the primary management concern. Birds are the most prevalent observable wildlife available. Hundreds of thousands of waterfowl provide spectacular migrational viewing with annual fall, winter, and spring stopovers. Shorebirds and wading birds can be seen daily in the spring, summer, and fall stalking prey along the shoreline and in the shallow backwaters. The Mississippi River corridor also provides unique habitat for the spring and fall migrations of many species of neotropical migrant songbirds.

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