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Willapa Bay is fairly shallow: more than half of its surface area lies in the intertidal zone, and half of the volume of water inside it enters and leaves with every tide. The bay is an estuary formed when the Long Beach Peninsula, a long sand spit from the Columbia River to the south, partially enclosed the estuaries of several smaller rivers.
Eventually a lifesaving station was built immediately to the east. In 1889 the area was renamed Willapa Bay after a local tribe. [4] The entrance to the bay is extremely unstable, and the sandy cape on which the lighthouse stood was steadily eroded away. By the late 1930s, the foundations of the building were affected, and it was abandoned in ...
Pacific County is centered on Willapa Bay, a region that provides twenty-five percent of the United States oyster harvest, [4] although forestry, fishing, and tourism are also significant elements of the county's economy.
The Willapa River is a river on the Pacific coast of southwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long. It drains an area of low hills and a coastal plain into Willapa Bay , a large estuary north of the mouth of the Columbia River .
Willapa National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on the shores of Willapa Bay in Washington, United States. It comprises 11,000 acres (45 km 2 ) of sand dunes, sand beaches, mudflats , grasslands , saltwater and freshwater marshes , and coniferous forest.
The river's lowermost course runs through part of the North Willapa Bay Wildlife Area Unit, [5] part of the Johns River Wildlife Area. [6] The mouth of the Cedar River merges with Willapa Bay in a tidally-influenced estuary. There is a 275 acre protected unit called the Cedar River Estuary, managed by Forterra.
The North River is a river, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in western Washington, in the United States.It empties into Willapa Bay, the first large estuary on the Washington coast north of the Columbia River.
The state park is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Willapa Bay to the east and shares a border with the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. The park's Martha Jordan Birding Trail goes through Hines Marsh, wintering grounds for trumpeter swans. [2] Other park activities include hiking, boating, fishing, clamming, and beachcombing. [3]