Follow Steamboat Slough Road through refuge.
Islands are accessible by boat only.
Critical habitat for the endangered Columbian White-tailed Deer. Wintering area for tundra swans, Canada geese, mallards, wigeon, and pintails. Water birds and raptors are common. Salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and trout in surrounding waters. Diked lands are grass and croplands interspersed with woodlots, brushy thickets and numerous sloughs.