
Immediately adjacent to John Day River area, at the border of Wheeler and Crook Counties
COA ID: 173
Recommended Conservation Actions
- Maintain and restore wetland and wet meadow habitat
- Restore and maintain complex, continuous sage habitat
- Use fire and thinning as appropriate to restore and enhance Ponderosa Pine habitats
Local Conservation Actions and Plans
- Eastern Oregon Bird Conservation Plan
- Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (updated 2014)
Potential Partners
- Bureau of Land Management
- US Forest Service
Special Features
General
- Adjacent to Black Canyon Wilderness Area
- Includes part of North Fork Crooked River Wild and Scenic Designation
- Streams throughout this area provide significant habitat for inland Columbia Basin redband trout
Protected Areas
- Black Canyon Wilderness
- Delintment Lake
- North Fork Crooked River
- North Fork Wilderness Study Area
- Ochoco National Forest
- Prineville District
- Round Mountain
- Spanish Gulch
Ecoregions
Strategy Habitats
Strategy Species

Pacific Marten (Observed)
Martes caurina

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides dorsalis

Black-backed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides arcticus

California Myotis (Observed)
Myotis californicus

Columbia Spotted Frog (Observed)
Rana luteiventris

Ferruginous Hawk (Observed)
Buteo regalis

Flammulated Owl (Observed)
Psiloscops flammeolus

Fringed Myotis (Observed)
Myotis thysanodes

Great Gray Owl (Observed)
Strix nebulosa

Greater Sage-Grouse (Modeled Habitat)
Centrocercus urophasianus

Hoary Bat (Observed)
Lasiurus cinereus

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Observed)
Melanerpes lewis

Loggerhead Shrike (Observed)
Lanius ludovicianus

Long-billed Curlew (Observed)
Numenius americanus

Long-legged Myotis (Observed)
Myotis volans

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Observed)
Contopus cooperi

Great Basin Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss newberrii

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Antrozous pallidus

Pileated Woodpecker (Observed)
Dryocopus pileatus

Silver-haired Bat (Observed)
Lasionycteris noctivagans

Steelhead / Rainbow / Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp

Swainson’s Hawk (Modeled Habitat)
Buteo swainsoni

Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Observed)
Corynorhinus townsendii

Upland Sandpiper (Observed)
Bartramia longicauda

Burrowing Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Athene cunicularia hypugaea

Western Painted Turtle (Modeled Habitat)
Chrysemys picta bellii

Western Toad (Observed)
Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides albolarvatus

Wolverine (Observed)
Gulo gulo