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Willapa
National Wildlife Refuge is located on Willapa Bay, one of the most pristine
estuaries in the United States .Willapa Bay is the second largest estuary
on the Pacific Coast and includes over 260 square miles of water surface.The
refuge was established in 1937 to protect migrating and wintering populations
of brant, waterfowl, shorebirds, and other migratory birds. The refuge was
established at a time when many estuaries were rapidly being destroyed by
diking, draining, dredging, sedimentation, and pollution.
The refuge preserves a number of unique ecosystems including diverse
salt marshes, rich tideflats, rain-drenched old growth forest, and dynamic
coastal dunes
and beaches.
Visitors to the refuge can enjoy viewing a wide variety of wildlife,
from spawning salmon in the refuge's numerous streams, to Roosevelt elk
on Long Island, to the tens of thousands of migrating shorebirds that
crowd the beaches at Leadbetter Point.
Check out the NEW Willapa NWR Planning Update 1, March 2008
Willapa
NWR Complex Home
3888 SR 101, Ilwaco, WA 98624
360-484-3482
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