
Located in the Powder River Basin immediately northwest of Baker City and including the town of Haines
COA ID: 165
Ecoregions
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 Three-toed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides dorsalis

Black-backed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides arcticus

Bobolink (Modeled Habitat)
Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Burrowing Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Athene cunicularia hypugaea

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis californicus

Columbia Spotted Frog (Modeled Habitat)
Rana luteiventris

Ferruginous Hawk (Modeled Habitat)
Buteo regalis

Flammulated Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Psiloscops flammeolus

Fringed Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis thysanodes

Great Gray Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Strix nebulosa

Greater Sage-Grouse (Observed)
Centrocercus urophasianus

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Lasiurus cinereus

Howell’s Spectacular Thelypody (Modeled Habitat)
Thelypodium howellii ssp. spectabilis

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Melanerpes lewis

Loggerhead Shrike (Modeled Habitat)
Lanius ludovicianus

Long-billed Curlew (Observed)
Numenius americanus

Long-legged Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis volans

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Modeled Habitat)
Contopus cooperi

Great Basin Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss newberrii

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Antrozous pallidus

Pileated Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Dryocopus pileatus

Silver-haired Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Lasionycteris noctivagans

Swainson’s Hawk (Observed)
Buteo swainsoni

Western Painted Turtle (Modeled Habitat)
Chrysemys picta bellii

Western Toad (Modeled Habitat)
Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides albolarvatus