Logan Valley-John Day River Headwaters – Oregon Conservation Strategy

Area just west of John Day and including the town of Prairie. Area encompasses the John Day River headwaters and a variety of diverse Strategy Habitats

COA ID: 179

Recommended Conservation Actions

Initiate and/or continue wet meadow conservation and restoration efforts
Maintain and/or initiate shrub-steppe restoration and management
Maintain and/or restore stands of Aspen Woodlands

Potential Partners

Bureau of Land Management
Burns Paiute Tribe
The Nature Conservancy
US Forest Service

Special Features

General

Adjacent to Strawberry Mountain Wilderness Area
Area is one of four known nesting sites for the upland sandpiper in Oregon. Also serves as a nesting site for the long-billed curlew
Provides significant habitat for Bull Trout
Provides significant wet meadow habitat for nesting birds

Protected Areas

Malheur National Forest
Prineville District
Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
Strawberry Mountain-Indian Creek Wilderness Study Area

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.

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.

Late Successional Mixed Conifer Forests

Late successional mixed conifer forests provide a multi-layered tree canopy, including large-diameter trees, shade-tolerant tree species in the understory, and a high volume of dead wood, such as snags and logs.

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.