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26,600 acres (108 km 2) Established. 1966. Governing body. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Website. San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California is one of the great remnants of a historically bountiful wintering grounds for migratory waterfowl on the Pacific Flyway.
Website. www.fws.gov /refuge /don _edwards _san _francisco _bay /. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (DESFBNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in the southern part of San Francisco Bay, California. Its headquarters and visitor center are in the Baylands district of Fremont, next to Coyote Hills Regional ...
List of National Wildlife Refuges. As of 2022, there are 588 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, [ 1 ] with the addition of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge. [ 2 ] Refuges that have boundaries in multiple states are listed only in the state where the main visitor entrance is located.
The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex is part of the United States system of National Wildlife Refuges (NWR). [1] It is located in northern California, in the valley of the Sacramento River. The Sacramento NWR Complex was created in an attempt to resolve the conflict between the needs of migrating birds using the Pacific Flyway, and ...
The Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge encompassing 965 acres (3.91 km 2) located in the California coastal community of Seal Beach. Although it is located in Orange County it is included as part of the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex. It was established in 1972. The refuge is a collaboration between the United ...
Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) island located 80 miles (130 km) north of Humboldt Bay (less than 1-mile (1.6 km) off the Pacific Coast) near Crescent City. The island serves as the second-largest seabird nesting colony in California. Castle Rock Refuge has the largest breeding population of common murres in ...
Many of the state's refuges are important stops and destinations for millions of migrating birds along the Pacific Flyway corridor. One, the Butte Sink Wildlife Management Area, has the highest density of waterfowl in the world. [6] There are 38 units in the refuge system in California, including both wildlife refuges and wildlife management ...
The first refuges were established to preserve and protect the rare birds of Southern California's coastal marshes. In the mid-1990s, the system was expanded to protect larger areas of coastal and inland open space under the Multiple Species Conservation Program, a cooperative project involving city, state, and federal authorities.