Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge is a 7,157-acre protected area on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, established in 1980 across five units on the Fort Morgan Peninsula and Little Dauphin Island. One of the Alabama shore’s largest undeveloped tracts, it preserves beaches, dunes, lagoon shoreline, scrub forest, swamps, marshes, and uplands that support migratory birds and native wildlife. Threatened and endangered species here include the Alabama beach mouse and nesting green, loggerhead, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, while about 400 bird species have been recorded. Though hurricanes including Ivan and Katrina damaged habitat and facilities, trails and beach access in the Perdue unit were later restored.