For most Southwest Washington residents, May 18 will always be known as the Mount St. Helens anniversary. But on the same date, 15 years before that fateful 1980 eruption, something else ...

An egret? A sandhill crane? A tundra swan, even? The Carty Unit, the northernmost portion of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, is a fine destination for a November outing by trail ...

Habitat: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge ... Caution: Refuge gate self-closes at 9 p.m. Source: Audubon Washington, Great Washington State Birding Trail maps. To order maps (Cascade Loop ...

Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both of Washington ... letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife asking for the agency’s commitment to fund the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in the fiscal year ...

RIDGEFIELD — In the half-light of dawn three mallards came swinging in over the decoys. They were hot and moving fast, but 14-year-old Noble Ketola was fast, too, and one of the birds crumpled ...

Undated photo of hunters surveying their decoy setup from a blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state. Brent Lawrence / USFWS The top manager of four national wildlife ...

The Pacific Flyway is a migration route that stretches ten thousand miles from the Arctic tundra to the wind whipped Patagonia steppe in Argentina. Birds use all or part of this route for their ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - A dog protecting its owner wouldn’t let a manager at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge approach the duck blind where the hunter had fatally collapsed. The Clark ...

Chris Lapp, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Complex project manager ... Columbian white-tailed deer are unique to western Washington and western Oregon, once ranging in river valleys from ...

All entries must be postmarked or in hand at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge ... For more information about the Washington contest, contact Mesha Wood, state coordinator, at mesha_wood@ ...

Cathlapotle Plankhouse at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge: 28908 NW Main Ave, Ridgefield, WA 98642 When: July 12, 2015 12pm - 4pm: Plankhouse Tours and Children's Activities Tour the ...

(AP) - Work is underway to improve pedestrian access a unit of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. The Columbian reports work began this summer on the project, estimated to cost between $3 ...