- White Island Wildlife Area Unit (wdfw.wa.gov)
The White Island Unit is accessible ONLY by boat. It has floodplain habitat located on White Island in the Columbia River upstream of Puget Island. Habitat on this unit is maintained for the Columbian white-tailed deer, a federally-listed endangered species. The unit is a designated Natural Area Preserve for its undisturbed black cottonwood-willow riparian habitat, freshwater wetland, and the presence of Columbian white-tailed deer.
- Burning of Red Wing Mills, March 4, 1883 (MNopedia)
Early generations of Minnesotans lived with the ever-present danger of fire. Many city histories tell of blazes that destroyed whole sections of their communities, but in most cases arson was not the cause. The Red Wing Mills complex, however, was almost certainly burned deliberately by an unknown arsonist.