Location: Lake County, OR
Land Management Agency: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge
Elevation: 4910 ft
Location: Lake County, OR
Topography: 0-3 % slope with a general aspect of 200 degrees
Common Vegetation:
Wyoming big sagebrush, bluebunch wheatgrass, squirreltail, Sandberg bluegrass, Indian rice grass, Thurber’s needlegrass, and a varying extent of cheatgrass invasion
Soils:
Brace-Raz complex
Fire Regime:
The Wyoming big sagebrush type is the driest of the sagebrush steppe communities and historically had a fire return interval of approximately 50-100 years. The introduction of cheatgrass into the sagebrush grassland communities has increased fine fuels and reduced the fire return interval to less than 10 years.
Representative Land Base:
Vast acreages in the High Desert of Eastern Oregon
Grazing:
Unfenced since no grazing is allowed at Hart Mountain.
