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On July 30, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order 7681 to create the Turnbull Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, a 23,000-acre, federally protected home for migratory birds and other wildlife in the Channeled Scablands near Cheney. Thirty-seven years later, after energetic lobbying by members of Eastern\u2019s biology faculty, what is today known as the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge also became a home for Eastern faculty and student researchers, as federal officials and the Washington State Legislature agreed to establish 51¸£ÀûÉç\u2019s Turnbull Laboratory for Ecological Studies. Now, after five decades of service, that laboratory is still fulfilling the mission imagined by its founders, serving as a research destination to \u201cfurther our understanding of the biological processes shaping populations, ecological communities and ecosystems of the Inland Northwest.\u201d Photo:<\/em> <\/span>Unidentified students and their instructor at Turnbull, circa 1980. Photo Courtesy of Steve Bingo, JFK Library.<\/i><\/p>\n

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On July 30, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order 7681 to create the Turnbull Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, a 23,000-acre, federally protected home for migratory birds and other wildlife in the Channeled Scablands near Cheney. Thirty-seven years later, after energetic lobbying by members of Eastern\u2019s biology faculty, what is today known as the Turnbull…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":3296,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3293","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-research","stories_tags-fall-winter-2024-25"],"acf":{"subheading":"Scenic Science","featured_image_format":"cover","display_featured_image":true,"display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_override_title":"","page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/3293\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}