Summary

Description

Prior to January 2004 the Complex was known as the Central Mississippi Refuge Complex and was comprised of 90,459 acres within the boundaries of 5 individual refuges and 43 Farmers Home Administration FmHA fee title and easement tracts, all located within the Lower Mississippi River Valley LMRV. In January, 2004, the Consolidated Appropriations Act renamed the Complex to Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex, and added two new refuges. The new refuges are being assembled from FmHA lands already in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service possession. The Bogue Phalia unit of the Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge NWR has been renamed the Holt Collier NWR, and the Theodore Roosevelt NWR is being created by selling or exchanging 6,600 acres of existing FHA tracts for land in the designated acquisition boundary. Only a small percentage of the land within the acquisition boundaries has actually been acquired to date.