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Sabine National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937 in Hackberry Louisiana. It consists of nearly 125 thousand acres , between the basin of the wetlands and the Gulf coast prairie. Making Sabine the largest coastal marsh refuge on the Gulf of the United States . It is home to a large contingent of the American Alligator, as well as Blue crabs, American Mink , North American River Otters , rabbits, turtles , shrimp and more than 200 species of birds , including Great Egrets , Cormorants, Snowy Egrets , ducks and geese. More than 280,000 people visit Sabine annually . I urge all to visit Sabine you won't be disappointed . The following is from Wikipedia and The Louisiana Department Of Natural Resources. Let's hope they follow through and protect this treasure that so many creatures call home. ..." The refuge is located where the river's fresh water and the Gulf's saline waters mix; where the abundance of all wildlife is dependent on the proportion of vegetation to water, with the amount of vegetation being the important ingredient. This area could be called an estuary, a marsh,or a wetland; its name is Sabine National Wildlife Refuge. Sabine encompasses 33,000 acres of impounded fresh marsh and 91,511 acres of brackish to intermediate marsh. Management of this 124,511 acre refuge is not as intensive as that found on smaller refuges. Because of many man-made and natural factors, habitat losses have occurred on an estimated 40,000 acres of the refuge. Major efforts are being taken to correct or prevent further loss. "