Talk:Becharof National Wildlife Refuge

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A fact from Becharof National Wildlife Refuge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know
- ... that Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world?
A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/May.

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Origin of the refuge

The article doesn't make clear that the initial national momument designation was intended from the beginning for it to become a wildlife refuge. I was sent out to King Salmon in the fall of 1978 by the USFWS, even before the monument was created, to act as a caretake for National Marine Fisheries service facility there that was being considered for transfer to serve as the new headquarters. I left King Salmon early in 1979 and the FWS had not begun any onsite management at that time. I'm not sure it is all that relevant to the article, though. Scromett (talk) 19:35, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]