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The municipal watershed of Montesano lies above the head of the lake, at the eastern end of Lake Sylvia, and is accessible by foot through the park. The city watershed is managed very similarly to a national forest and serves as a corridor for wildlife to enter and leave the park and the northern parts of the town.
At about the same time, surveyor Charles Newton Byles bought a farm from Walter King on the present-day site of Montesano on April 9, 1870, [6] and later platted three blocks on the west side of Main Street. [7] The town of Montesano was born, but it was not incorporated until November 26, 1883, by the Washington Territorial Legislature. [8]
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is a department of the government of the state of Washington, United States of America. The WDFW manages over a million acres of land, the bulk of which is generally open to the public, and more than 500 water access sites. [ 3 ]
Aug. 16—The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will acquire 40 acres of land to be added to the Chehalis Wildlife Area a few miles southwest of Elma, expanding on swathes of wetlands ...
The area that comprises modern-day Grays Harbor County is the ancestral territory of several indigenous Coast Salish peoples, including the Quinault and Lower Chehalis.They first came into contact with European explorers in the late 18th century and the tribes were later afflicted by regional epidemics.
There are county, state and federal marine protected areas off the coast of Washington. The state marine reserves are managed by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; [1] aquatic reserves are managed by the Washington Department of Natural Resources, [2] and marine state parks are managed by Washington State Parks. [3]
It is owned by the city of Aberdeen, Washington, and was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1972. The dam regulates the flow of the Wynoochee River , creating Wynoochee Reservoir. The Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail , designated a National Recreation Trail in 1979, runs 16 miles (26 km) around the lake.
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