National Key Deer Refuge

National Key Deer Refuge: Coordinates: 24°44′00″N 81°24′00″W / 24.7333333°N 81.4°W / 24.7333333; -81.4

The National Key Deer Refuge is a 8,542-acre (34.57 km²) National Wildlife Refuge located on Big Pine Key and No Name Key in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida.

The refuge is home to the endangered Key Deer, a subspecies of the White-tailed deer that is endemic to the Florida Keys and has a current population of around 800 animals. 21 other threatened and endangered species of plants and animals are also found on the refuge, which includes 2,400 acres (9.7 km²) of upland forests, 5,100 acres (21 km²) of wetlands, and 1,050 acres (4.2 km²) of marsh. 2,278 acres (9.22 km²) of the refuge have been designated as a wilderness area.

Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Great White Heron NWR, and Key West NWR are administered by the National Key Deer Refuge.

External links

National Key Deer Refuge official site and information sheet and maps

Florida Keys.com

Bird checklist

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Biscayne National Park

Soldier Key • Ragged Keys • Boca Chita Key • Sands Key • Elliott Key • Adams Key • Caesar's Rock • Meig's Key • Rubicon Keys • Reid Key • Porgy Key • Totten Key • Old Rhodes Key • City of Islandia

Upper keys

Key Largo (island) • Key Largo (CDP) • North Key Largo (CDP) • Tavernier (CDP) • Plantation Key (island) • Plantation Key (former CDP) • Windley Key • Upper Matecumbe Key • Tea Table Key • Indian Key • Lignumvitae Key • Lower Matecumbe Key • Village of Islamorada

Middle keys

Craig Key • Fiesta Key • Long Key • City of Layton • Conch Key • Little Conch Key • Duck Key (island) • Duck Key (CDP) • Grassy Key • Crawl Key • Long Point Key • Fat Deer Key • Key Vaca • City of Marathon • City of Key Colony Beach • Boot Key • Knight's Key

Lower keys

Pigeon Key • Money Key • Little Duck Key • Missouri Key • Ohio Key • Sunshine Key • Bahia Honda Key • Spanish Harbor Key • Scout Key (West Summerland Key) • No Name Key • Big Pine Key (CDP) • Little Torch Key • Middle Torch Key • Big Torch Key • Ramrod Key • Summerland Key • Knockemdown Key • Cudjoe Key (CDP) • Sugarloaf Key • Park Key • Lower Sugarloaf Key • Saddlebunch Keys • Shark Key • Geiger Key • Big Coppitt Key (island) • Big Coppitt Key (CDP) • East Rockland Key • Rockland Key • Boca Chica Key • Raccoon Key • Stock Island (island) • Stock Island (CDP) • Key West (island) • Key West (city) • Sigsbee Park • Fleming Key • Sunset Key • Wisteria Island

Outlying Islands

Mule Keys (with Mule Key • Crawfish Key • Archer Key • Joe Ingram Key • Big Mullet Key • Barracouta Key • Cottrell Key • Man Key • Little Mullet Key • Ballast Key • Woman Key • Boca Grande Key) • Marquesas Keys • Dry Tortugas • Tortugas Bank (submerged)

Areas

Florida Bay • Dry Tortugas National Park • Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary • National Key Deer Refuge • John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park • Biscayne Bay • Biscayne National Park • Key West National Wildlife Refuge • Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge • Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge • Florida Reef

Other Topics

Monroe County • Conch Republic • Overseas Highway • Overseas Railroad • Card Sound Bridge • Jewfish Creek Bridge • Seven Mile Bridge • Bahia Honda Rail Bridge • Theater of the Sea • Hurricane Wilma • Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 • Key Deer • Key lime pie • Florida Keys Keynoter • Key West Citizen

v · d · eProtected Areas of Florida

Federal

National Parks

Biscayne National Park • Dry Tortugas National Park • Everglades National Park

National Monuments
and Memorials

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument • Fort Matanzas National Monument • De Soto National Memorial • Fort Caroline National Memorial

National Forests

Apalachicola • Choctawhatchee • Ocala • Osceola

National
Wildlife Refuges

Archie Carr • Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee • Caloosahatchee • Cedar Keys • Chassahowitzka • Crocodile Lake • Crystal River • Egmont Key • Florida Panther • Great White Heron • Hobe Sound • Island Bay • J.N. 'Ding' Darling • Key West • Lake Wales Ridge • Lake Woodruff • Lower Suwannee • Matlacha Pass • Merritt Island • National Key Deer • Okefenokee • Passage Key • Pelican Island • Pine Island • Pinellas • St. Johns • St. Marks • St. Vincent • Ten Thousand Islands

Other National
Protected Areas

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary • Big Cypress National Preserve • Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve •
Canaveral National Seashore • Gulf Islands National Seashore •
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve • Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve • Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

Parks

Amelia Island • Anastasia • Avalon • Bahia Honda • Bald Point • Big Lagoon • Big Talbot Island • Bill Baggs Cape Florida • Bulow Creek • Caladesi Island • Camp Helen • Cayo Costa • Collier-Seminole • Curry Hammock • Delnor-Wiggins Pass • Devil's Millhopper • Don Pedro Island • Eden Gardens • Egmont Key • Falling Waters • Faver-Dykes • Florida Caverns • Fort Clinch • Fort Cooper • Fort George Island • Fort Pierce Inlet • Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou • Gasparilla Island • George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier • Highlands Hammock • Hontoon Island • Hugh Taylor Birch • John D. MacArthur Beach • John Pennekamp Coral Reef • John U. Lloyd Beach • Jonathan Dickinson • Little Talbot Island • Long Key • Lovers Key / Carl E. Johnson • Mike Roess Gold Head Branch • Navarre Beach • North Peninsula • O'Leno • Oscar Scherer • Ravine Gardens • River Bluff Picnic Site • Sebastian Inlet • Skyway Fishing Pier • St. George Island • St. Joseph Peninsula • Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center • Stump Pass Beach • Tomoka • Torreya • Windley Key Fossil Reef

Botanical Garden Parks

Alfred B. Maclay Gardens • Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock • Lignumvitae Key • Washington Oaks State Gardens

Lakes, Rivers
and Springs Parks

Deer Lake • Lake Griffin • Lake June in Winter Scrub • Lake Kissimmee • Lake Louisa • Lake Manatee • Lake Talquin • Alafia River • Blackwater River • Econfina River • Guana River • Hillsborough River • Little Manatee River • Myakka River • Ochlockonee River • Silver River • Suwannee River • Blue Spring • De Leon Springs • Edward Ball Wakulla Springs • Fanning Springs • Homosassa Springs Wildlife • Ichetucknee Springs • Lafayette Blue Springs • Madison Blue Springs • Manatee Springs • Rainbow Springs • Troy Springs • Weeki Wachee Springs • Wekiwa Springs • Werner-Boyce Salt Springs • Wes Skiles Peacock Springs

Recreation Areas

Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek • Dead Lakes • Dunns Creek • Gamble Rogers Memorial • Grayton Beach • Henderson Beach • Honeymoon Island • Oleta River • Perdido Key • Ponce de Leon Springs • St. Andrews • Three Rivers

Museums, Historic sites,
and Archaeological sites

Cedar Key Museum • Constitution Convention Museum • Forest Capital Museum • John Gorrie State Museum • Ybor City Museum • The Barnacle • Bulow Plantation Ruins • Dade Battlefield • DeSoto Site • Dudley Farm • Fort Foster • Fort Mose • Fort Zachary Taylor • Gamble Plantation • Indian Key • Koreshan • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Homestead • Natural Bridge Battlefield • Olustee Battlefield • Orman House • Paynes Creek • San Marcos de Apalache • Yellow Bluff Fort • Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins • Crystal River • Lake Jackson Mounds • Letchworth Mounds • Madira Bickel Mound • Mound Key • San Pedro Underwater

Preserves and Reserves

Anclote Key • Cedar Key Scrub • Charlotte Harbor • Crystal River • Estero Bay • Fakahatchee Strand • Grassy Lake • Hal Scott • Kissimmee Prairie • Lower Wekiva River • Paynes Prairie • Pumpkin Hill Creek • River Rise • Rock Springs Run • San Felasco Hammock • Savannas • Seabranch • St. Lucie Inlet • St. Sebastian River • Tarkiln Bayou • Topsail Hill • Tosohatchee • Waccasassa Bay • Yellow River Marsh

State Trails

Gainesville-Hawthorne • General James A. Van Fleet • Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad Trail • Withlacoochee

State Forests

Belmore • Big Shoals Public Lands • Blackwater River • Carl Duval Moore • Cary • Cottage Hill • Deep Creek • Etoniah Creek • Four Creeks • Goethe • Holopaw • Indian Lake • Jennings • John Bethea • Lake George • Lake Talquin • Lake Wales Ridge • Little Big Econ • Matanzas • Myakka • Okaloacoochee Slough • Picayune Strand • Pine Log • Point Washington • Ralph E. Simmons Memorial • Ross Prairie • Seminole • Tate's Hell • Tiger Bay • Twin Rivers • Wakulla • Watson Island • Welaka • Withlacoochee

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

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