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More recently, Leque Island had suffered repeated levee failures, which endangered the local roadway, Washington State Route 532. [5] Today the island is a Wildlife Recreation Area, where people come for bird watching, photography, and to hunt ducks, geese and pheasants during hunting season, with the pheasants being stocked on-site.
The American goldfinch is the state bird of Washington. This list of birds of Washington includes species credibly documented in the U.S. state of Washington. Unless otherwise noted, the list is that of the Washington Bird Records Committee (WBRC) of the Washington Ornithological Society. As of November 2021, the list contained 522 species.
Wenas Wildlife Area is a 105,460-acre (42,680 ha) protected area managed by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife located in Yakima and Kittitas counties. The property was acquired in the mid-1960s to provide wintering grounds for the Yakima elk herd [1] and is managed with the chief purpose of providing healthy wildlife habitat.
Part of the "Eastern Lake Ontario Barrier Beach and Wetland Complex" New York Natural Heritage Area. [7] Bog Brook: Putnam: 132 acres (0.53 km 2) Braddock Bay: Monroe: 2,402 acres (9.72 km 2) Canadaway Creek: Chautauqua: 2,080 acres (8.4 km 2) Canoga Marsh: Seneca: 104 acres (0.42 km 2) [8] Protects marshland along the western shore of Cayuga ...
Pheasant numbers increased 101% in the southwest corner of the state, leading an index that also marked a sizable pheasant increase in west-central Minnesota but declines elsewhere, according to ...
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...
Oct. 16—By Ayanna Eckblad Many people on Saturday gathered across rural areas of the state for a classic Minnesota pastime — pheasant hunting. The season began Saturday and will run through ...
Eastern Washington is the region of the U.S. state of Washington located east of the Cascade Range.It contains the city of Spokane (the second largest city in the state), the Tri-Cities, the Columbia River and the Grand Coulee Dam, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and the fertile farmlands of the Yakima Valley and the Palouse.