In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt made the sea stacks a half-mile offshore from Oceanside the first national wildlife refuge west of the Mississippi River. Called Three Arch Rocks, ...

Doug Beghtel/The OregonianThree Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge, half a mile off Oceanside, provides critical habitat for a dozen types of seabirds, as well as for Steller sea lions. Three ...

Sep. 28—When conservationist and photographer William L. Finley, along with friend and fellow outdoorsman Herman Bohlman, rowed a dory in 1903 to Shag Rock, near Oceanside, they hoped to bring ...