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Bird life is abundant.
There are several osprey nests in the refuge. A new canoe launch off Lemieux Road offers paddlers a second access to Bayou Cane via a narrow quarter-mile slough. The location, the environmental education site for the 14,000-acre refuge, has plenty of parking, but paddlers have to carry canoes about 50 yards to the launch. A pavilion and half-mile nature trail under construction at the site will be finished by the end of next month, said Byron Fortier, supervisory park ranger with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge offers two-hour canoe trips on Bayou Cane led by a volunteer naturalist several times a month.