Deer Island, COA 053

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Deer Island — Photo Credit: Bernadette Graham-Hudson, ODFW

A large (3,000+ acres) island located at River Mile 78-81 along the Lower Columbia River.

COA ID: 053

Recommended Conservation Actions

Explore opportunities to modify livestock grazing and other agricultural practices to restore fish and wildlife habitats
Identify and address point sources of water pollution and improve water quality.
Protect and improve aquatic and upland habitats for turtles and amphibians.
Protect and restore wetland (perennial and seasonal) and riparian habitats.
Provide habitat for over-wintering, migratory and breeding waterfowl.
Remove fish and wildlife movement barriers.
Restore and improve connectivity between tidally-influenced side channel habitats and wetlands to improve conditions for salmonids.

Local Conservation Actions and Plans

Potential Partners

Special Features

Previously Associated With

2006 COA ID WV-01 (Columbia River Bottomlands)

Protected Areas

Wetlands Reserve Program

Ecoregions

Coast Range Ecoregion

Coast Range

Oregon’s Coast Range, known for its dramatic scenery, is extremely diverse, with habitats ranging from open sandy dunes to lush forests and from tidepools to headwater streams. It follows the coastline and extends east through coastal forest to the border of the Willamette Valley and Klamath Mountains ecoregions

Finley Muddy Creek Area

Willamette Valley

The Willamette Valley ecoregion is bounded on the west by the Coast Range and on the east by the Cascade Range. This long mostly level alluvial plain has some scattered areas of low basalt, and contrasts with productive farmland and large urban areas. It has the fastest-growing human population in the state resulting in challenges due to land-use changes.

Strategy Habitats

Grassland Strategy Habitat

Grasslands

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

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.

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.

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.

Specialized Local Habitats

Bottomland hardwood forests
Off-channel habitat
Tidally influenced wetlands
Wet prairie and marshes

Strategy Species

California Myotis on tree

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis californicus

Chinook Salmon - Spring/Summer Run

Chinook Salmon (Documented)

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Chipping Sparrow (Modeled Habitat)

Spizella passerina

Chum Salmon

Chum Salmon (Documented)

Oncorhynchus keta

Coastal Cutthroat Trout (Documented)

Oncorhynchus clarki clarki

Coho Salmon (Documented)

Oncorhynchus kisutch

Columbia Torrent Salamander (Modeled Habitat)

Rhyacotriton kezeri

Common Nighthawk (Modeled Habitat)

Chordeiles minor

Dusky Canada Goose (Observed)

Branta canadensis occidentalis

Fringed Myotis (Modeled Habitat)

Myotis thysanodes

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasiurus cinereus

Northern Red-legged Frog (Modeled Habitat)

Rana aurora

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Modeled Habitat)

Contopus cooperi

Oregon Vesper Sparrow

Oregon Vesper Sparrow (Modeled Habitat)

Pooecetes gramineus affinis

Pacific Lamprey

Pacific Lamprey (Documented)

Entosphenus tridentatus

Silver-haired Bat (Modeled Habitat)

Lasionycteris noctivagans

Steelhead / Rainbow / Redband Trout (Documented)

Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp

Western Bluebird (Observed)

Sialia mexicana

Western Gray Squirrel (Modeled Habitat)

Sciurus griseus

Western Meadowlark (Modeled Habitat)

Sturnella neglecta

Western Painted Turtle on a log

Western Painted Turtle (Observed)

Chrysemys picta bellii

Northwestern Pond Turtle (Observed)

Actinemys marmorata

Purple Martin (Observed)

Progne subis arboricola

Willow Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher (Observed)

Empidonax traillii

Yellow-breasted Chat (Modeled Habitat)

Icteria virens auricollis