Warm Springs River, COA 126

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Area includes the Warm Springs River (a tributary to the Deschutes River) and surrounding habitat. River flows eastward with headwaters in the Cascade Crest

COA ID: 126

Recommended Conservation Actions

Maintain or enhance in-channel watershed function, flow and hydrology
Maintain or restore riparian habitat; provide complex habitat for wildlife

Potential Partners

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Special Features

General

Naturally spawning spring chinook

Previously Associated With

2006 COA ID EC-03 (Warm Springs River)

Ecoregions

Upper Klamath Lake

East Cascades

The East Cascade ecoregion extends from the Cascade Mountains’ summit east to the warmer, drier high desert and down the length of the state. This ecoregion varies dramatically from its cool, moist border with the West Cascades ecoregion to its dry eastern border, where it meets sagebrush desert landscapes.

Strategy Habitats

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.

Ponderosa Pine Woodlands Strategy Habitat, within the Ochoco National Forest, in Oregon.

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

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

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

Black-backed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)

Picoides arcticus

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Observed)

Picoides dorsalis

Bull Trout

Bull Trout (Documented)

Salvelinus confluentus

California Myotis on tree

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis californicus

Cascades Frog (Modeled Habitat)

Rana cascadae

Flammulated Owl (Modeled Habitat)

Psiloscops flammeolus

Great Gray Owl (Modeled Habitat)

Strix nebulosa

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasiurus cinereus

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)

Melanerpes lewis

Long-legged Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis volans

Northern Goshawk (Modeled Habitat)

Accipiter gentilis atricapillus

Northern Spotted Owl (Observed)

Strix occidentalis caurina

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Modeled Habitat)

Contopus cooperi

Oregon Spotted Frog (Modeled Habitat)

Rana pretiosa

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Antrozous pallidus

American Pika (Modeled Habitat)

Ochotona princeps

Silver-haired Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasionycteris noctivagans

Steelhead / Rainbow / Redband Trout (Documented)

Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp

Swainson’s Hawk (Modeled Habitat)

Buteo swainsoni

Western Toad (Modeled Habitat)

Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)

Picoides albolarvatus