When traveling on US 12 to find free public area of McNary National Wildlife Refuge

Turn left at the stop light to Ice Harbor Dam when coming from Pasco.Turn right at the Humorist Road stop light when coming from Walla Walla.

Park in the lot at 311 Lake Road.

Open from dawn to dusk

Quiz

Naomi Sherer

Environmentalist and educator gives tours of the Refuge on the mile chipped trail around the pond.
Naomi greets visitors at the Education Center. She opened the Center in 1997
and is presently historian for the Friends of Mid-Columbia NWR Complex.

The Center is staffed by volunteers on Monday through Friday.
Among the hundred Audubon birds on display are:
a river otter, beaver, badger, coyote, and lesser weasel.

You are by nature a scientist.

Breathe deeply and smell nature.

"Walk with me where eagles fly
and tumble wildly through the sky
giving truth to ancient words
that sometimes love is for the birds"
-Douglas Follett,
Ranger at Glacier National Park

Beaver at work. Small cottonwood trees were chewed off and the bark stripped. Click for details.