Oregon's Coastal National Wildlife Refuges Photo Gallery

This aerial view shows Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge with Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge and Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge in the background.  

Aerial view of Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which supports 10 percent of the world's population of dusky Canada geese and contains a multitude of habitat including pastures, grasslands, woodlands, tidal marsh and mudflats, freshwater bogs, and forested lagg.  

Darkening clouds signal an approaching Pacific Ocean storm off the wildlife refuges along the Oregon coast.  

A Northwest salamander darts along the ground at Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge, located on a small headland just south of Tillamook Bay on Orgeon's northwestern coast.  

Harbor seals soak up the sun on just one of dozens of beaches in the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex.  

Western sandpipers and dunlin congregate on Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. The 889-acre region serves as an oasis for migrating shorebirds, waterfowl, Coho salmon, and threatened and endangered species including bald eagles and California brown pelicans.  

An aerial view shows surf hitting the rocky cliffs of Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge was established in 1938 to protect one of the last remnants of coastal old-growth forest, which include huge Sitka spruce and western hemlock, some over 200 feet tall and hundreds of years old.