Appendix B. Bird Conservation Areas in the Columbia Plateau Landbird Conservation Planning Region.

The following areas have been identified as potential Bird Conservation Areas (BCAs). The list is not intended to be a complete or final list of the best sites for landbird conservation, but does represent some examples of areas we feel would benefit from immediate consideration for incorporation of landbird conservation actions as described in this document. For most sites, we also provide some examples of high priority bird species that occur at the sites. See Chapter 4 for a discussion of the purpose and potential value of BCAs.

Disclaimer: There are no legal responsibilities for landowners within the BCAs to participate in bird conservation, nor is it implied that our bird conservation objectives should supercede those for other ongoing activities within BCA boundaries. However, it is strongly encouraged that landowners and land-managers attempt to incorporate bird conservation objectives where possible with other practices.

Shrub-Steppe Bird Conservation Areas (SSBCA):

• Palouse Prairie:

1. Rose Creek Preserve

2. Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge - GRSP

• Columbia Basin:

1. Yakima Training Center - ALL spp..

2. Hanford Department of Energy Lands (includes Rattlesnake, Saddle Mt. ALE) - ALL spp.

3. Boardman Bombing Range and Boeing State Leased Lands - MOST spp.

4. Moses Coulee - SASP, BRSP, SATH

5. Beezley Hills - LOSH, SASP, BRSP, SATH

6. Potholes Region (includes Columbia NWR) - BUOW, LOSH, GRSP, BRSP, SASP

7. Quilomene and Clockum Wildlife Areas - SATH, SASP, BRSP, LOSH

8. Toppenish Ridge and Refuge - SATH, LOSH, SASP, GRSP, BOBO

9. Horse Heaven Hills - GRSP, LASP, SASP, FEHA, SWHA

10. Colville Reservation - SATH, GRSP

11. Lincoln County Scablands - MOST spp.

12. Yakima River Canyon - LT Murray Wildlife Area

13. Saddle Mountain - 20,000 acres?? SASP, LOSH, GRSP

14. Juniper Forest Management Area (includes Juniper Dunes Wilderness) - FEHA, SWHA, GRSP, BUOW, LOSH

• High Lava Plains:

1. Crooked River National Grasslands

2. Badlands Lava Beds (east of Bend to south of Redmond)

3. Island on Lake Billy Chinook

4. PGE lands west of Crooked River - Deschutes River

• Great Basin:

1. Foster Flat RNA - BLM

2. South Blitzen Valley - BOBO

3. Mud Lake - Harney Lake on Malheur NWR - BRSP, BOBO, BUOW, SASP, LOSH

4. Catlow Valley (Roaring Springs) - BOBO, BRSP

5. Steens Mountain - MOST spp.

6. Hart Mountain - MANY spp.

7. Silvies River Floodplain - BUOW, BOBO, LOSH

8. South of Fields - BUOW, BOBO, LOSH

9. Antelope Creek, Malheur County - GRFL

10. Alvord Desert - BTSP

11. North Winter Rim (Lake County near Summer Lake)

12. North Warner Mountains

• Owyhee Uplands:

1. Jordan Valley - BOBO

2. Cow Lakes

3. Battle Mountain, Malheur County

4. Oregon Canyon Mountains - ALL spp.

5. Sheephead Mountains, Malheur County

6. West Little Owyhee River draionage, Malheur County - MOST spp.

Riparian Bird Conservation Areas (RBCA)

Palouse Prairie:

1. Palouse River and Tributaries - LEWO

Columbia Basin:

1. Crab Creek Wildlife Area and Columbia NWR - ATFL, YBCH, LABU

2. Turnbull NWR (includes Fishtrap Management Area) - LEWO, WIFL, BUOR, RNSA

3. Toppenish Creek and Refuge - WIFL, YBCH, BOBO

4. Rock Creek (ncludes south of Turnbull) - YBCH, WIFL, LABU, BUOR

5. Potholes - YBCH

6. Confluence Camas and N. Fork John Day - USFS, BLM, State

7. Upper Crab - Wilson Creeks (Lncoln County) - YBCH, WIFL, LABU, BUOR

8. Lee Thomas-Dead Cow Meadow (East-slope Cascades??)

9. Upper Similkameen River south to Canadian border - LEWO, WIFL

10. Upper Methow River north of Winthrop and Twisp River between Twisp and the National Forest

11. Upper Okanogan River north of Tonasket - LEWO

High Lava Plains:

1. Deschutes River and tributaries

2. Crooked River and Trout Creek

Great Basin:

1. Malheur NWR 9needs finer scale) - WIFL, YBCH

2. Steens Mt. And Pikes Peak - LEWO, YBCH, WIFL

3. Hart Mt. - Lewo

4. Fish Hole Lakes Basin

Owyhee Uplands:

1. Owyhee River - YBCU

2. Succor Creek

3. Oregon Canyon Mountains