Logan Cave Fact Sheet

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge

Refuge Facts Management Tools ■ Established: 1989. ■ Law enforcement. ■ Acres: 123. ■ Partnerships. ■ Located in Benton County, AR. ■ Research. ■ Location: The refuge is located Questions and Answers between Siloam Springs and Can we go in the cave? Springdale, AR. The refuge is No. The refuge is closed to all unstaffed and managed by Holla public use for the protection of the Bend NWR in Dardanelle, AR. endangered gray bat, endangered cave crayfish, threatened Ozark ■ Logan Cave NWR is closed to all cavefish, and the fragile cave habitat. public use. Natural History Can I hunt on the refuge? ■ This Ozark Mountain refuge No. The refuge is closed to all includes a limestone-solution public use and is too small to allow cave formed by the underground hunting without interference and river that flows throughout the endangerment to the cave and nearby reaches of the cave and exits at residents. Logan Spring. ■ Water flow from the spring has been recorded at 5 million gallons per day. The spring water once supplied the Logan community, a fish hatchery, and 49 fish ponds. ■ Today, the spring forms a small stream which flows into Osage Creek. Financial Impact of Refuge ■ Unstaffed. photos: by John and Karen Hollingsworth © photos: by John and Karen

Refuge Manager ■ Visitors are restricted to Service Logan Cave NWR employees and other employees c/o Holla Bend NWR of state and Federal agencies for 10448 Holla Bend Road surveys and research. Dardanelle, AR 72834 Refuge Objectives Phone: 479/229 4300 ■ The primary objectives of Logan Fax: 479/229 4302 Cave NWR are to properly E-mail: [email protected] administer, preserve and develop the 123-acre area for protection of a unique cave ecosystem that provides essential habitat for the two endangered species, the gray bat and the cave crayfish and one threatened species, the Ozark cavefish.