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Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, as seen from Vista House, Crown Point, Oregon.
Image taken October 21, 2006.
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Steigerwald Lake ...
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Steigerwald Lake is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River at approximately River Mile (RM) 126, and today it is part of the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The lake and refuge are upstream of Washougal, Washington and downstream of Cape Horn. Crown Point is opposite on the Oregon side of the Columbia. Steigerwald Lake varies in size depending on how wet the season has been. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names Website (2006) lists the lake as 3.7 miles long.
Steigerwald Lake was named after an early settler. The lake was also known as "Herzog's Lake", "Shepherds Lake", "Steigerwald Slough", and "Steigerwalds Lake". In 1949 the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made the official name "Steigerwald Lake".
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Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken, June 29, 2005.
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Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge ...
Creating the Refuge ...
The creation of Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge began as a dream of the Vancouver Audubon Society. From their website (2004):
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"Steigerwald Lake is a former floodplain that was diked in 1964 to create an industrial park. Dredge spoils from the Columbia River were pumped over the dike filling in much of the wetlands. In 1975, the newly formed Vancouver Audubon Chapter took the preservation of this area on as its first project. After ten years of gathering data and fighting various planned projects including a proposed nuclear power plant, the core of the area was purchased as a mitigation site for wetlands lost to the expansion of Bonneville Dam. This was accomplished through the efforts of Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, to whom we are grateful."
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Views of Steigerwald Lake NWR ...
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Steigerwald Lake, Washington.
Steigerwald Lake, Washington, as seen from Crown Point, Oregon.
Image taken, October 10, 2004.
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Steigerwald Lake NWR and Point Vancouver, Washington (background) and Rooster Rock, Oregon (foreground), as seen from Vista House at Crown Point, Oregon.
Image taken, October 10, 2004.
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Steigerwald Lake and Point Vancouver (right), Washington, as seen from Crown Point, Oregon.
View from Vista House, with Historic Columbia River Highway in the foreground.
Image taken, June 27, 2004.
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Columbia River, looking downstream, from Tunnel Point, Oregon.
Reed Island is on the left and Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge is on the right.
Image taken June 15, 2003.
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Views from Steigerwald Lake ...
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Good views of Mount Hood and Crown Point can be seen from Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge Viewpoint on Washington State Highway 14.
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Mount Hood and Crown Point, Oregon, as seen from Steigerwald Lake, Washington.
Image taken June 29, 2005.
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Mount Hood, Oregon, as seen from Steigerwald Lake, Washington.
Image taken July 3, 2003.
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Crown Point, Oregon, as seen from Steigerwald Lake, Washington.
Image taken June 29, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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