Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge
by Joan Carroll
Title
Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
This is a view of Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge taken from Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint....what an embarrassment of riches there was for photography all in one place! The lighthouse behind me and the ocean and wildlife refuge on the other side. Three Arch Rocks consists of 15 acres (6 ha) on three large and six small rocky islands located about a half mile (1 km) offshore from Oceanside. It is one of the smallest designated wilderness areas in the U.S., but features the largest colony of breeding Tufted Puffins and the largest Common Murre colony south of Alaska. It is the only northern Oregon pupping site for the threatened Steller Sea Lion. The refuge was established by President Theodore Roosevelt after being persuaded by two young conservationists �William L. Finley and Herman Bohlman � who studied and photographed Three Arch Rocks from Oceanside beginning in 1901. They recorded hunters killing dozens of sea lions at a time for skin and oil, and sportsmen shooting seabirds purely for sport. Due to a scarcity of regional chicken farms at the time, seabird eggs were priced at up to a dollar per dozen, encouraging egg harvesting and reducing the bird colony population. Finley and Bohlman suggested a wildlife refuge to Roosevelt to protect dwindling populations and ensure survival of seabird and marine mammal populations. Roosevelt declared the Three Rocks area a National Wildlife Refuge in 1907.[4] In 1970 the United States Congress designated the Refuge wilderness.We have to be thankful for such farsighted conservationists over a century ago!
FEATURED PHOTO, Landscape Art group, 2/10/15
FEATURED PHOTO, The Road to Self Promotion group, 7/18/14
FEATURED PHOTO, The World We See group, 7/15/14
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July 15th, 2014
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