Clatsop State Forest-Jewel Meadows Area, COA 007

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The Clatsop State Forest in Oregon's Coast Range. Photo Credit: Herman Biederbeck, ODFW

The area includes Clatsop State Forest and Jewel Meadows Wildlife Area and connects with Columbia River – Blind Slough Swamp. The watershed provides critical habitat for many coastal plant and animal communities. The area contains managed forest including components of mature stands and remnant large trees and open upland grassland meadows.

COA ID: 007

Recommended Conservation Actions

Follow Objectives and strategies in Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area Management Plan
Maintain and restore habitat
Manage and Protect mature and late successional forest especially for forest dependent strategy species
Protect, enhance and restore habitats to benefit fish and wildlife species. Manage habitats to enhance populations of Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer & other native wildlife

Local Conservation Actions and Plans

Potential Partners

Special Features

General

Jewel Meadows Wildlife Area encompasses 1,114 acres owned and managed by ODFW

Previously Associated With

2006 COA ID CR-02 (Columbia - Clatskanie area)

Ecoregions

Coast Range Ecoregion

Coast Range

Oregon’s Coast Range, known for its dramatic scenery, is extremely diverse, with habitats ranging from open sandy dunes to lush forests and from tidepools to headwater streams. It follows the coastline and extends east through coastal forest to the border of the Willamette Valley and Klamath Mountains ecoregions

Strategy Habitats

Grassland Strategy Habitat

Grasslands

Grasslands include a variety of upland grass-dominated habitats, such as upland prairies, coastal bluffs, and montane grasslands.

Coast Range Ecoregion

Late Successional Mixed Conifer Forests

Late successional mixed conifer forests provide a multi-layered tree canopy, including large-diameter trees, shade-tolerant tree species in the understory, and a high volume of dead wood, such as snags and logs.

Example of Oak Woodlands, which is a Strategy Habitat within the Oregon Conservation Strategy

Oak Woodlands

Oak woodlands are characterized by an open canopy dominated by Oregon white oak.

Flowing Water and Riparian Habitats

Flowing Water and Riparian Habitats include all naturally occurring flowing freshwater streams and rivers throughout Oregon as well as the adjacent riparian habitat.

Ducks on a wetland in Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, Oregon

Wetlands

Wetlands are covered with water during all or part of the year. Permanently wet habitats include backwater sloughs, oxbow lakes, and marshes, while seasonally wet habitats include seasonal ponds, vernal pools, and wet prairies.

Strategy Species

California Myotis on tree

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis californicus

Chinook Salmon - Spring/Summer Run

Chinook Salmon (Documented)

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Documented)

Oncorhynchus clarki clarki

Coastal Tailed Frog (Modeled Habitat)

Ascaphus truei

Coho Salmon (Documented)

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Columbia Torrent Salamander (Observed)

Rhyacotriton kezeri

Cope’s Giant Salamander (Observed)

Dicamptodon copei

Fringed Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis thysanodes

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasiurus cinereus

Long-legged Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis volans

Marbled Murrelet (Modeled Habitat)

Brachyramphus marmoratus

Northern Spotted Owl (Observed)

Strix occidentalis caurina

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Observed)

Contopus cooperi

Purple Martin (Observed)

Progne subis arboricola

Red Tree Vole (Modeled Habitat)

Arborimus longicaudus

Silver-haired Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasionycteris noctivagans

Western Toad (Modeled Habitat)

Anaxyrus boreas

Steelhead / Rainbow / Redband Trout (Documented)

Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp