Located on the Oregon Coast and originally designated in 1976, the biosphere reserve was expanded and reauthorized in 2017. It consists of rare and diverse ecosystems, including the Salmon River and its estuary, a sandy littoral spit, densely forested uplands, a two mile basalt headland covered in native coastal prairie, and a marine reserve stretching west into the waters of the Pacific.
Declaration Date: 1976
Country: USA
Surface Area: 7,051 ha
Resident population:
Contact: Dan Twitchell
Biosphere@cascadeHead.org
See on the map