
This COA follows the Grande Ronde River from the Oregon/Washington border to its confluence with the Wallowa River, then continues up the Wallowa to Highway 82 and the Minam River confluence. It includes many of the smaller tributaries and significant portions of larger tributaries.
COA ID: 158
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.

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.

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.

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

American Pika (Modeled Habitat)
Ochotona princeps

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides dorsalis

Black-backed Woodpecker (Modeled Habitat)
Picoides arcticus

Bobolink (Modeled Habitat)
Dolichonyx oryzivorus

Bull Trout (Documented)
Salvelinus confluentus

Burrowing Owl (Modeled Habitat)
Athene cunicularia hypugaea

California Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis californicus

Chinook Salmon (Documented)
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Columbia Spotted Frog (Modeled Habitat)
Rana luteiventris

Ferruginous Hawk (Observed)
Buteo regalis

Flammulated Owl (Observed)
Psiloscops flammeolus

Fringed Myotis (Modeled Habitat)
Myotis thysanodes

Great Gray Owl (Observed)
Strix nebulosa

Hoary Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Lasiurus cinereus

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Observed)
Melanerpes lewis

Loggerhead Shrike (Modeled Habitat)
Lanius ludovicianus

Long-billed Curlew (Modeled Habitat)
Numenius americanus

Long-legged Myotis (Observed)
Myotis volans

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Observed)
Contopus cooperi

Pallid Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Antrozous pallidus

Pileated Woodpecker (Observed)
Dryocopus pileatus

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Observed)
Ovis canadensis canadensis

Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog (Observed)
Ascaphus montanus

Silver-haired Bat (Observed)
Lasionycteris noctivagans

Spalding’s Campion (Observed)
Silene spaldingii

Steelhead / Rainbow / Redband Trout (Documented)
Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp

Swainson’s Hawk (Observed)
Buteo swainsoni

Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Modeled Habitat)
Corynorhinus townsendii

Trumpeter Swan (Observed)
Cygnus buccinator

Western Painted Turtle (Modeled Habitat)
Chrysemys picta bellii

Western Toad (Observed)
Anaxyrus boreas

White-headed Woodpecker (Observed)
Picoides albolarvatus