Boardman Area – Oregon Conservation Strategy

Boardman Area COA 154 Photo Credit: Keith Kohl, ODFW

South of the Columbia River, in north central Oregon. Area includes important conservation lands near the Boardman Conservation Area; Willow Creek Wildlife Area; and grassland included in The Nature Conservancy conservation portfolio

COA ID: 154

Recommended Conservation Actions

Control wildfires to protect native habitats from risk of conversion to invasives
Maintain and/or initiate shrub-steppe restoration and management
Promote early detection and suppression of invasive weeds

Local Conservation Actions and Plans

Important Bird Areas of Oregon
MSCCAA (PGE, Threemile Farms)
ODFW maintains a conservation easement on 22,000 acres within this COA

Special Features

General

Area hosts some of the highest densities of breeding long - billed curlew in the world
Area provides some of the highest quality remaining shrub steppe and grassland habitat in the ecoregion
Area represents the largest contiguous Washington Ground Squirrel habitat in Oregon

Previously Associated With

2006 COA ID CP-06 (Boardman area)

Protected Areas

Boardman Naval Bombing Range
Boardman Research Natural Area
Horn Butte
Prineville District

Ecoregions

Columbia Plateau

The Columbia Plateau ecoregion was shaped by cataclysmic floods and large deposits of wind-borne silt and sand earlier in its geological history. It is dominated by a rolling landscape of arid lowlands dissected by several important rivers, and extends from the eastern slopes of the Cascades Mountains, south and east from the Columbia River to the Blue Mountains.