Agate Desert
The Agate Desert is a prairie (and not a true desert)[1][2] located Jackson County, Oregon, United States, in the area of White City. Much of the World War II army training base Camp White was built in the Agate Desert. The Nature Conservancy is working to preserve part of the Agate Desert as a native Rogue River Valley grassland. The Agate Desert is so named because of the abundance of agates, petrified wood, jasper and other minerals found there.
The area's vernal pools contain a rare species of fairy shrimp and are the only known place where the endangered big-flowered woolly meadowfoam grows.[3]
References
- ↑ "The Nature Conservancy's Agate Desert Preserve". Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ "Agate Desert". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
- ↑ "Big-flowered wooly meadowfoam". Oregon Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
External links
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- The Nature Conservancy's Agate Desert Preserve
- EIS on threatened and endangered species in the Agate Desert
- Agate Desert Lomatium (Agate Desert Parsley)
- Oak fungus in the Agate Desert
- Whetstone Savanna
- Fairy shrimp
Coordinates: 42°25′45″N 122°53′50″W / 42.42917°N 122.89722°W