
Area includes the Little Deschutes River, a tributary of the Deschutes River. The Little Deschutes drains a rural area on the eastside of the Cascade Range.
COA ID: 132
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.

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

Pacific Marten (Observed)
Martes caurina

American Pika (Modeled Habitat)
Ochotona princeps

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides dorsalis

Black-backed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides arcticus

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis californicus

Cascades Frog (Modeled Habitat)
Rana cascadae

Flammulated Owl (Observed)
Psiloscops flammeolus

Great Gray Owl (Observed)
Strix nebulosa

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Lasiurus cinereus

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Observed)
Melanerpes lewis

Long-legged Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis volans

Northern Goshawk (Modeled Habitat)
Accipiter gentilis atricapillus

Northern Spotted Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Strix occidentalis caurina

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Observed)
Contopus cooperi

Great Basin Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss newberrii

Oregon Spotted Frog (Observed)
Rana pretiosa

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Antrozous pallidus

Silver-haired Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Lasionycteris noctivagans

Western Toad (Observed)
Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides albolarvatus

Yellow Rail (Modeled Habitat)
Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis