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Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge is located within Grays Harbor, at the mouth of the Chehalis River, which makes up the second largest watershed in Washington. It is one of four major staging areas for migrating shorebirds in the Pacific Flyway. Up to one million shorebirds gather here in spring and fall to feed and rest. [3]
As the forests of the eastern United States depleted, many loggers from the East and the Midwest migrated to the Grays Harbor area, as well as many Scandinavians and Finns from Europe. [3] Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge is located on 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) of intertidal mudflats, salt marsh, and uplands around Hoquiam.
Parks in Grays Harbor County, Washington (10 P) Pages in category "Protected areas of Grays Harbor County, Washington" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge; J. Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer; L. ... Mid-Columbia River National Wildlife Refuge Complex; P.
Washington Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Complex is an administrative grouping of six National Wildlife Refuges in Washington, managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It includes: Flattery Rocks National Wildlife Refuge (125 acres (51 ha), [1
Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge: Grays Harbor County: WA 1990 1,471.38 acres (5.9545 km 2) [536] Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer: Wahkiakum County Clatsop County, Oregon Columbia County, Oregon: WA 1972 5,600 acres (23 km 2) [434] Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge: Pend Oreille County Stevens ...
Olympic National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Washington, USA. With an area of 628,115 acres (254,189 ha), it nearly surrounds Olympic National Park and the Olympic Mountain range. Olympic National Forest contains parts of Clallam , Grays Harbor , Jefferson , and Mason counties.
Grays Harbor used to be one of the most consistently Democratic counties in the nation, due to its unionized logging industry. Until 2016, the last Republican presidential candidate to carry the county was Herbert Hoover in 1928; [ 21 ] the last Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the county until 2016 was Daniel J. Evans in 1964 . [ 22 ]