
Includes significant stretch of the Silvies River and surrounding habitat. Spans Blue Mountains (bounded at the north by the town of Seneca) and Northern Basin & Range Ecoregion (starting at Malheur Lake to the south), passing through the town of Burns
COA ID: 178
Ecoregions

Blue Mountains
Located in NE Oregon, the Blue Mountains ecoregion is the largest ecoregion in the state. It provides a diverse complex of mountain ranges, valleys, and plateaus that extend beyond Oregon into the states of Idaho and Washington.

Northern Basin and Range
The Northern Basin and Range ecoregion covers the very large southeastern portion of the state, from Burns south to the Nevada border and from the Christmas Valley east to Idaho. It is largely a high elevation desert-like area dominated by sagebrush communities and habitats.
Strategy Habitats

Aspen Woodlands
Aspen woodlands are woodland or forest communities, dominated by aspen trees with a forb, grass, or shrub understory. Aspen woodlands can also occur within conifer forests.

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

Natural Lakes
Natural lakes are relatively large bodies of freshwater surrounded by land. For the purposes of the Conservation Strategy, natural lakes are defined as standing water bodies larger than 20 acres, including some seasonal lakes.

Ponderosa Pine Woodlands
Ponderosa pine woodlands are dominated by ponderosa pine, but may also have lodgepole pine, western juniper, aspen, western larch, grand fir, Douglas-fir, mountain mahogany, incense cedar, sugar pine, or white fir, depending on ecoregion and site conditions. Their understories are variable combinations of shrubs, herbaceous plants, and grasses.

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.

Sagebrush Habitats
Sagebrush habitats include all sagebrush steppe- and shrubland-dominated communities found east of the Cascade Mountains.

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

American Pika (Modeled Habitat)
Ochotona princeps

American White Pelican (Observed)
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

Black-backed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides arcticus

Black-necked Stilt (Observed)
Himantopus mexicanus

Bobolink (Observed)
Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Burrowing Owl (Observed)
Athene cunicularia hypugaea

California Myotis (Observed)
Myotis californicus

Caspian Tern (Observed)
Hydroprogne caspia

Columbia Spotted Frog (Observed)
Rana luteiventris

Ferruginous Hawk (Observed)
Buteo regalis

Flammulated Owl (Observed)
Psiloscops flammeolus

Franklin’s Gull (Observed)
Leucophaeus pipixcan

Fringed Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis thysanodes

Great Basin Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss newberrii

Great Gray Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Strix nebulosa

Greater Sage-Grouse (Observed)
Centrocercus urophasianus

Greater Sandhill Crane (Observed)
Antigone canadensis tabida

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)
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

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Antrozous pallidus

Peregrine Falcon (Observed)
Falco peregrinus anatum

Pileated Woodpecker (Observed)
Dryocopus pileatus

Pygmy Rabbit (Observed)
Brachylagus idahoensis

Silver-haired Bat (Observed)
Lasionycteris noctivagans

Snowy Egret (Observed)
Egretta thula

Swainson’s Hawk (Observed)
Buteo swainsoni

Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Corynorhinus townsendii

Trumpeter Swan (Observed)
Cygnus buccinator

Upland Sandpiper (Modeled Habitat)
Bartramia longicauda

Western Snowy Plover (Observed)
Charadrius nivosus nivosus

Western Toad (Modeled Habitat)
Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides albolarvatus

Willow Flycatcher (Observed)
Empidonax traillii

Wolverine (Observed)
Gulo gulo