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 | Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge is located on Humboldt Bay, on the coast of northwestern California. The refuge exists primarily to protect and enhance wetland habitats for migratory water birds using the bay area, including tens of thousands of shorebirds, ducks, geese, swans, and black brant.
During the spring, the bay's eelgrass beds are a key staging area for brant prior to their return to Arctic nesting grounds; and the refuge grasslands provide important habitat for thousands of Aleutian Canada geese. Like many of the refuges in the system, this one was established to preserve habitats recognized to be instrumental to the perpetual survival of migratory birds and other wildlife.
Humboldt Bay NWR, along with other public and private lands around Humboldt Bay, helps this area remain one of the key points for the millions of migratory birds that rely on the Pacific Flyway. More than 200 bird species, including 80 kinds of water birds and four endangered species, regularly feed, rest, or nest on the refuge or other areas around the bay.
The bay provides habitat for approximately 100 species of fish, many of which contribute to sport or commercial fisheries, and provides habitat for steelhead, Coho, and Chinook salmon. The refuge also administers the Lanphere Dunes Unit and Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge. Lanphere Dunes contains the most pristine remaining dune ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest and supports rare and representative examples of older forested dunes, young active dunes, dune swale wetlands, and coastal salt marsh.
Castle Rock Refuge is a 14-acre island located less than 1 mile off the Pacific Coast near Crescent City. The island serves as the second-largest seabird nesting colony south of Alaska. Castle Rock Refuge has the largest breeding population of common murres in California.
Each spring, over 20,000 Aleutian Canada geese roost on the island from late January through early April. Castle Rock Refuge also serves as a haul out for resting marine mammals including harbor seal, northern elephant seal, California sea lion, and Stellar's sea lion. |
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| | | B&Bs / Inns | | Old Town Bed and Breakfast Inn - The original home of the William Carson family is now a beautifully restored four-room Bed and Breakfast Inn located at the edge of Old Town in the historic seaport village of Eureka, California. | | Shaw House Inn - Built more than a century ago in 1854 by the city founder, the Shaw House Inn was the first post office and courthouse. It is now the oldest structure in Ferndale and the oldest B&B in California. | | Farmhouse at Riverbar Farm - Riverbar Farm is a small farm 250 miles north of San Francisco near Fortuna. Giant Redwoods and parks are nearby. We raise cattle, pigs, and poultry as well as a pumpkin patch and corn maze. |
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| Homepage of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - ... 2003 Rich Guadagno Memorial Conservation Fund Richard Guadagno, 38, was the manager of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge on the coast of northern California and was a passenger aboard the ... | | Bird Checklists of the United States - ... Mountain National Wildlife Refuge -- CA Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge -- CA Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge -- CA Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge -- CA Joshua Tree National Park ... | | Hum-Boats Sailing, Canoe & Kayak Center ~ Humboldt Bay, Eureka, California - Hum-Boats Sailing, Canoe and Kayak Center. ... full moon explorations of our local waters and wildlife refuge, Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge . We can take groups of up to 10 people to waters ... | | Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda buttercup, soursob, sour grass) - One of The Nature Conservancy's exotic species resource pages. ... in large quantities. Andrea Pickart of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge in northern California reports that O. pes-caprae has ... | | CWIS -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - ... Wildlife Refuge P.O. Box 524 Newark, CA 94560 Refuge Manager (707)733-5406 Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge 1020 Ranch Road Loleta, CA 95551 Kim Forrest Refuge Manager (209)826-3508 Fax (209 ... |
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| Humboldt Bay Refuge has a great diversity of wetland habitats in and adjacent to the Bay. In order of relative abundance they include mudflats, eelgrass beds, diked seasonal wetlands, sand spits, uplands, saltmarsh, brackish marsh, and freshwater marsh. Refuge habitats include seasonal wetlands, salt marsh, tidal mudflats and channels, open water, and uplands. |
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| Humboldt Bay Refuge consists of 10 units in and around Humboldt Bay, west of Highway 101, near the cities of Arcata and Eureka, California. Information on wildlife-oriented education and recreational opportunities (hiking, observation, boating, hunting and fishing) are available at the Richard J. Guadagno Visitor Center at the Salmon Creek Unit.
To get to the refuge office and Salmon Creek Unit: about10 miles south of Eureka, take the Hookton Road Exit from Highway 101. Southbound traffic, turn right at the end of the off ramp, then immediately left onto Ranch Road; northbound traffic, take the overpass, turn right onto Ranch Road. To the Hookton Slough trailhead: drive 1.2 miles west on Hookton Road; the parking area is on the north side of Hookton Road. |
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