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Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge
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Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge, on the Oregon coast near Pacific City, protects an estuarine landscape where tidal marshes, mudflats, grassland, woodland, pasture, forested lagg, and freshwater bogs meet. Established in 1991 as part of the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex, it supports about one tenth of the world’s dusky Canada goose population and provides habitat for salmon, trout, steelhead, raptors, and migrating shorebirds. Its southernmost coastal Sphagnum bog on the Pacific Coast supports unusual plants such as sundews and bog cranberries. The refuge also has scientific value because nearby Neskowin Marsh preserves notable evidence of repeated Cascadia tsunami activity.
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