Bully Creek Area – Oregon Conservation Strategy

Adjacent to North Fork Malheur – Monument Rock area, including significant stretches of Clover Creek and Bully Creek

COA ID: 183

Recommended Conservation Actions

Maintain and enhance Aspen Woodlands
Maintain and restore Sagebrush-steppe habitat
Restore and maintain complex, continuous sage habitat

Potential Partners

Bureau of Land Management

Special Features

General

Includes Greater sage-grouse core areas
Includes significant amount of high - quality Sagebrush Habitat

Previously Associated With

2006 COA ID BM-15 (North Fork Malheur - Monument Rock area)
2006 COA ID BM-16 (Bully Creek area)

Protected Areas

Beaver Dam Creek Wilderness Study Area
Castle Rock
Castle Rock Wilderness Study Area
North Ridge Bully Creek
South Ridge Bully Creek

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.