Why are there National Wildlife Refuges on the coast?
The six refuges on the Oregon Coast protect and provide habitat for a variety of coastal wildlife and plants. Protected habitats include coastal rocks, reefs, and islands, estuaries, brackish marsh, salt marsh, old-growth forests, mud flats, uplands, and flooded pastures. Coastal wildlife using these habitats include common murre, pigeon guillemot, tufted puffin, Steller sea lion, Aleutian Cackling goose, Pacific giant salamander, coho and chinook salmon.
