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Blowing Wind Cave National Wildlife Refuge
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Blowing Wind Cave National Wildlife Refuge
2700 Refuge Hq Road
Decatur, Alabama 35603
Phone: 253-353-7243
Email: wheeler@fws.gov
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| Sauta Cave NWR (known as Blowing Wind Cave NWR until 1999) is a 264 acre Refuge purchased in 1978 to provide protection for the federally endangered gray and Indiana bat and their critical habitat. The cave provides a summer roosting site for about 200,000 - 300,000 gray bats and a winter hibernaculum for both the gray and Indiana bats. There are two entrances into the cave on the Refuge but they are closed to the public.
As is the case with many large caves, rare and unique species occur in Sauta Cave. As a result, the Alabama Natural Heritage Program ranks the cave's biodiversity as a site of very high significance. Surprisingly, the cave is not a pristine one as it was used as a saltpeter mine during the Civil War, a nightclub during the 1920's, and a fallout shelter during the 1960's.
In addition to the rare fauna within the cave, the federally endangered Price's potato bean occurs on the Refuge. All 264 acres of habitat outside of the cave is predominately hardwood forest. |
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| Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge - Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge Decatur, Alabama Street Address: 2700 Refuge Road Decatur, AL 35603 Mailing Address: 2700 Refuge Road Decatur, AL 35603 Contact: Phone: ? Museum Staff ... | | Bird Checklists of the United States - ... 1994) Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge -- Decatur, AL (Printed 8/95) Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge -- AL Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge -- AL Watercress Darter National Wildlife ... | | Bird Checklists of the United States - ... Printed 1994) Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge -- Decatur, AL (Printed 8/95) Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge -- AL Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge -- AL Watercress Darter National ... |
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| Located 7 miles west of Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama. Scottsboro, AL. The cave has a double entrance- Sauta Cave Refuge is located just above the Sauty Creek embayment of TVAs Guntersville Reservoir, 7 miles west of Scottsboro in Jackson County, Alabama. There is an entrance gate to the refuge on the south side of Highway 72. |
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