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Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge
Nat'l Recreation Area
Nat'l Recreation Area

Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge

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The 2,765-acre refuge was established in 1988 to protect two of the eight native fish species of the Río Yaqui watershed: the Yaqui chub (Gila purpurea) and the Yaqui topminnow (Poeciliopsis sonoriensis). In addition, the refuge protects a unique velvet ash-black walnut-cottonwood forest along Leslie Creek that is important for many migrating and nesting birds. It is 17.5 miles north of the international border with Mexico in southeast Arizona's Cochise County and is one of more than 560 National Wildlife Refuges, a federal network of lands and waters set aside for the benefit of wildlife

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Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in Arizona. The 2,770-acre (11.2 km2) refuge was established in 1988 to protect habitat for the endangered Yaqui Chub and Yaqui Topminnow. The refuge also protects a rare velvet ash-cottonwood-black walnut gallery forest.

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