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Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
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Nearest City: Cheney, WA
Activities: Hiking, wildlife viewing
Phone: 509-235-4723
State: Washington
Type: National Wildlife Refuges
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Details: Turnbull NWR, located in the channeled scablands of eastern Washington was historically used by indigenous people to hunt game and gather camas, onion, and bitterroot. Species of duck including redhead, canvasback, and ruddy duck, mallard, cinnamon teal, American wigeon and northern pintail all nest on the refuge. Sixty-three species of migratory birds frequent refuge aspen groves including house wrens, wood pewees, western bluebirds and yellow warbler. Species occupying the ponderosa pine forests include the pygmy nuthatch, red crossbill and chipping sparrow. Elk also inhabit the refuge along with white-tailed deer, coyotes, Columbian ground squirrels, red squirrels, badgers and porcupines and the occasional beaver, muskrat or mink.
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