Andy Kerr - Oregon Conservation Act Tables

Acreage Summary of Wilderness and Other Special Areas ^{^[1]}

*Acreage*	*Area*	*Ecoregion(s)*
67,478	Abert Rim Wilderness	BR
412,247	Alvord Wilderness	BR, OU ^[2]
30,643	Badlands Wilderness	LP
317,642	Bighorn Wilderness	BR
367,771	Buzzard's Creek Wilderness	BR
136,584	Crooked Wilderness	LP, BM ^[3]
32,864	Deschutes Canyon Wilderness	LP, CB ^[4]
420,530	Diablo Mountain Wilderness	BR
39,263	Fish Creek Rim Wilderness	BR
71,117	Fort Rock Lava Beds Wilderness	BR
15,546	Homestead Add. to the Hells Canyon Wilderness	BM
200,083	John Day River Wilderness	LP, CB, BM ^[5]
107,468	Lonesome Lakes Wilderness	BR
328,186	Malheur Canyons Wilderness	OU, BM, BR ^[6]
92,303	Malheur Lake Wilderness	BR
556,879	Oregon Grasslands Wilderness *	BR
1,363,054	Owyhee Wilderness **	OU, BR ^[7]
279,039	Pronghorn Wilderness	BR
86,010	Pueblo Mountains Wilderness *	BR
9,769	Sheep Mountain Wilderness	BM
257,120	Sheepshead Mountains Wilderness	BR, OU ^[8]
16,518	Shifting Sand Dunes Wilderness	BR
38,000	Soda Mountain Wilderness ***	KM
76,588	South Fork John Day Wilderness	BM, LP ^[9]
612,021	Steens Mountain Wilderness	BR
263,799	Trout Creek Mountains Wilderness *	BR

6,198,522	TOTAL WILDERNESS

Wilderness By Ecoregion

*Ecoregion*	*Total (acres)*	*Existing Wilderness Areas (acres)*	*Proposed ODCA Wilderness Areas (acres)*	*Total Percentage Wilderness (current)*	*Total Percentage Wilderness (proposed)*
Basin & Range (BR)	9,279,069	0	3,773,070	0	40.7
Blue Mountains (BM)	11,052,757	915,039	243,941	8.3	10.4
Columbia Basin (CB)	4,076,902	0	59,868	0	1.5
Klamath Mountains (KM)	3,890,547	210,360	38,000	5.4	6.4
Lava Plains (LP)	4,135,799	0	303,242	0	7.3
Owyhee Uplands (OU)	5,991,751	0	1,780,401	0	29.7

Oregon ^[10]	62,687,360 ^[11]	2,102,606 ^[12]	6,198,522	3.6	7.6

Other Special Areas

*Acreage*	*Area*	*Ecoregion(s)*
47,627	Boardman Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge	CB
353,768	Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Expansion	BR
41,154	Lake Abert National Wildlife Refuge	BR
101,079	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Expansion	BR

543,628	Fish and Wildlife Service subtotal

16,656	Diamond Craters National Monument	BR
96,256	Fort Rock Lava Beds National Monument	BR
84,430	Jordan Craters National Monument	OU
36,624	Lost Forest-Shifting Sand Dunes National Monument	BR

233,966	National Park Service subtotal

1,091,721	Lower Owyhee National Conservation Area	OU
903,759	Steens Mountain National Conservation Area	BR

1,995,480	Bureau of Land Management subtotal

2,773,074	ACRES TOTAL OTHER SPECIAL AREAS

The total non-overlapping acres included for various forms of protection in the proposed Oregon Desert Conservation Act is 7,173,639 acres. ^[13]

July 6, 1999

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Footnotes

^[1] Acreage subject to change.

^[2] 304,697 ac. Basin & Range, 107,550 ac. Owyhee Uplands.

^[3] 112,504 ac. Lava Plains, 24,080 ac. Blue Mountains.

^[4] 21,804 ac. Lava Plains, 11,060 ac. Columbia Basin.

^[5] 121,427 ac. Lava Plains, 48,808 ac. Columbia Basin, 29,848 ac. Blue Mountains.

^[6] 210,936 ac. Owyhee Uplands, 104,974 ac. Blue Mountains, 12,276 Basin and Range.

^[7] 1,357,467 ac. Owyhee Uplands, 5,587 ac. Basin and Range.

^[8] 152,672 ac. Basin and Range, 104,448 ac. Owyhee Uplands.

^[9] 59,724 ac. Blue Mountains, 16,864 ac. Lava Plains.

^[10] Doesn't total from above as figures include Coast Range, West Cascades, East Cascades and Willamette Valley ecoregions.

^[11] page 11, Oregon Blue Book, 1997-98, Salem.

^[12] "The National Wilderness Preservation System in Oregon," The Larch Company, Joseph, 1999 (source: www.wilderness.net).

^[13] Most of the Other Special Areas include Wilderness designation within their boundaries, totaling 1,797,957 acres. A total of 7,173,639 acres would be protected in the Oregon Desert Conservation Act (does not include eventual Wild and Scenic River recommendations).

* Adjacent proposed Wilderness in Nevada

** Adjacent proposed Wilderness in Idaho and Nevada

*** Includes adjacent proposed Wilderness in California.

**** Essentially all "forested," as opposed to "desert" wilderness.