PENDLETON AREA County

Dry grasslands and dryland wheat croplands and minimal sagebrush. The habitat between mile 1 and 4.5 is good for grassland birds from Apr. to Sep. Some years, Grasshopper Sparrows breed along the road. Reinhart Road, which intersects Coombs Canyon...

McKay Dam and Reservoir were established in the late 1920s as part of the Umatilla Project for the purpose of providing irrigation water to farmlands in the Hermiston, Echo, and Stanfield areas. The refuge was established in 1929.

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