Established in 1994, Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge protects and preserves one of the last remaining contiguous bottomland hardwood forests in the Red River basin. Pond Creek Refuge is located in southwest Arkansas along the Texas/Oklahoma border. The refuge provides needed protection for the extremely valuable yet rapidly disappearing wetland hardwood forest community, a haven for native wildlife and migratory birds. The refuges forested habitat is extremely diverse, and is traversed by a series of creeks, sloughs, and rivers. It is geographically positioned in an area where the Central and Mississippi flyways overlap and where vast upland terrains abruptly transition to lowland areas seasonally inundated by water. Location and the variety of available habitats result in a readily noticeable diversity of year-round and migratory wildlife species.