LONG DRAW FIRE FACTS
Vale District Office
ACRES BURNED
548,379 acres- Bureau of Land Management
1,866 acres- Department of Energy
7,734 acres- Private
218 acres- State of Oregon
558,196-Total Acres
GRAZING ALLOTMENTS
ALLOTNAME
15-MILE COMMUNITY
AMBROSE-MAHER
BARREN VALLEY
BLACK HILL
BOWDEN HILLS
CAMPBELL
COYOTE LAKE
ECHAVE
EIGUREN
GILBERT
JACKIES BUTTE SUMMER
JACKIES BUTTE WINTER
LOUSE CANYON COMMUNITY
SHERBURN
Total AUMs
Total Allotment
% total
in Allotment
Acres
ACRES Burned Burned
26,823
319,335
145,644
45.61
640
3,781
3,763
99.52
200
12,800
12,377
96.70
103
32,175
3,005
9.34
1,810
84,946
80,164
94.37
14,157
158,310
95,501
60.33
3,358
242,426
16,410
6.77
1,795
17,724
4,186
23.62
6,373
67,750
61,264
90.43
4,501
57,183
57,178
99.99
20,683
228,923
57,550
25.14
521
20,202
6,434
31.85
13,170
130,494
11,326
8.68
4,195
48,877
1,307
2.67
*16 grazing permittees were affected by this fire
SAGE GROUSE HABITAT
Sage-grouse Preliminary Priority Habitat
Sage-grouse Preliminary General Habitat
Non-sage-grouse Habitat
– 229,959 ac
– 261,123 ac
– 71,113 ac
HERD MANAGEMENT AREAS (HMA)
Jackies Butte HMA-Approximately 47,828 acres (73%) of the HMA
Coyote Lake HMA-Approximately 16,343 acres are within the fire perimeter
*Only two studs and one colt died as a direct result of this fire. 195 wild horses are in the process
of being gathered to be placed in holding facilities until the rangelands within the HMA have
recovered. Monitoring of water resources continues on Coyote Lake as this is the limiting factor.
WEEDS
There are approximately 700 acres infested with noxious weed in the northern area of this fire.
WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS
Owyhee River Canyon Wilderness Study Area (WSA)-31,258 acres within the fire perimeter
Bowden Hills WSA-58,953 acres within the fire perimeter
Alvord Desert WSA-16,174 acres within the fire perimeter
WILDERNESS CHARACTERISTICS
206, 483 acres within the fire perimeter are lands found to have Wilderness Characteristics in the
most current inventory update.
AREA OF CRITERICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
100% of the 148 acres Mendi Gore Playa Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC)/
Research Natural Area (RNA) is within the fire perimeter.