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As with the other refuges within the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex, the primary management goal of Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge is to provide high quality wintering habitat for geese, especially the dusky Canada goose (Branta canadensis subsp. occidentalis), to ensure healthy, viable goose populations while minimizing goose browse damage to crops on private agricultural ...
It's the latest expansion for the two-year-old complex of trails, classrooms, play areas and education sites located 11 miles south of Salem at Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
The 8-foot-wide (2.4 m) trail is open to non-motorized uses such as hiking and biking. [3] A 4-foot-wide (1.2 m) horse trail parallels the hiking and biking trail. [ 4 ] The rail trail crosses 12 bridges and the Buxton Trestle, a former railroad trestle bridge that is 600 feet (180 m) long and 80 feet (24 m) high. [ 2 ]
L. L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is a 1,654-acre (669 ha) Oregon state park in Washington County near the community of Buxton.When the park opened in 2007 it was the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972. [2]
[2] [5] In addition, the 36,870-acre (14,920 ha) Bull of the Woods Wilderness in the Mount Hood National Forest shares its southern boundary with the Opal Creek Wilderness. [6] The Opal Creek Valley contains 50 waterfalls and five lakes. Eight hiking trails, remnants of the early day prospecting and fire access routes, total 36 miles (58 km). [7]
A 1-acre wildfire was extinguished Thursday afternoon south of Salem on Riverside Drive, just north of Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge. The fire was reported at 2:03 p.m.
Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge is in northwestern Oregon, 10 miles (16 km) west of Salem in Polk County. The Refuge consists of 1,173 acres (4.75 km 2 ) of cropland , which provide forage for wintering geese, 300 acres (1.2 km 2 ) of forests , 550 acres (2.2 km 2 ) of grasslands , and 500 acres (2.0 km 2 ) of shallow water seasonal ...
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