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E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area

state protected area in Oregon, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5321840 ↗
Source-derived summary

The E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area (or E. E. Wilson Game Management Area) is a wildlife management area located near Corvallis, Oregon. The site was named for Eddy Elbridge Wilson, a member of the former Oregon State Game Commission for fourteen years before his death in 1961. Wildlife visible includes blacktail deer, pheasant, and quail.

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“E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area” enters the record as state protected area in Oregon, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wilson, Wildlife and Area can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wilson, Wildlife and Area.
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“E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wilson, Wildlife and Area provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5321840. Authority coordinates are 44.699, -123.210. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.