Rocky Mountain Arsenal

The wildlife habitat at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge ranges from small patches of relatively undisturbed native prairie, to woodlots and wetlands brought by settlers and farmers.

The Arsenal is home to one of the most intense and successful shortgrass prairie restoration programs in the nation. Refuge biologists are working hard to put the prairie back on this landscape. Within the next 10 years, nearly 8,000 acres of former cropfields will be re-seeded with buffalo grass, blue grama and many other species of grasses, wild flowers, and shrubs that are native to Colorado's high plains.