Gray Lodge Wildlife Area

Securing a Refuge on the Pacific Flyway

The wetlands of the upper Sacramento Valley are a stopover for more than three million migrating birds each winter, making it one of the most important feeding and resting areas on the Pacific Flyway. Intensively farmed, the land is flat, bordered by the Sierra Nevada to the east and the coastal range to the west.

Ninety-five percent of wetlands in California’s Central Valley have been lost to farming and development over the last one hundred years, making marshlands like those in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area both rare and vital.

In 1998, ALC added 750 acres to the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area located north of Butte Sink, an area with the highest concentration of waterfowl per acre in the world.

To learn more about Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, visit the California Department of Fish and Game.

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