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The Coffer Ranch is a 492 acre private ranch located along Mill Creek to the northeast of Prineville, OR. Deschutes Land Trust has worked with the owners in 2010 to permanently protect the 492 acres of ranchland and its wildlife habitat.
The conserved area includes about a mile of frontage along Mill Creek with its springs and wetlands. Mill Creek is home to a number of wildlife species including redband trout, Columbia spotted frogs and and numerous songbirds. There are also numerous wildflowers along the creek and on upland slopes including lupines, balsamroots, bitterrot and phlox. There are old-growth western juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands on slopes above the creek along with a native bunchgrass understory.
* Please print, fill out and bring Deschutes Land Trust's waiver with you to the meeting site.
Expect to find: pale agoseris (Agoseris glauca), Tolmie's onion (Allilum tolmiei), arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata), rough eyelashweed (Blepharipappus scaber), diamond clarkia (Clarkia rhomboidea), dustymaidens (Chaenactis douglasii), yellow desert daisy (Erigeron linearis), shaggy daisy (Erigeron pumilus), sulfur flower buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum), western wallflower (Erysimum capitatum), prairie smoke (Geum triflorum), roundleaf alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica var. alpina), Scouler's hawkweed (Hieracium scouleri), western blue flag (Iris missouriensis), bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva), wild blue flax (Linum lewisii), slender woodland star (Lithophragma tenellum), silvery lupine (Lupinus argenteus), lowly penstemon (Penstemon humilis), narrowleaf phacelia (Phacelia linearis), spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa), woolly goldenweed (Stenotus lanuginosus), showy townsendia (Townsendia florifer), panicled deathcamas (Toxicodendron paniculatum).
Coffer Ranch Plant List
There are no facilities at Coffer Ranch.
Note: As this is private property, it is not open to the public. NPSO will schedule a hiking tour here on June 1, 2018 and the Deschutes Lant Trust offers periodic hikes at the property during the year. Contact them if you'd like to join a hike here (their hike schedule should be posted on their website). Driving directions will be provided at the meeting place. Distance from Prineville is about 15 miles one way, about 20 minutes in drive time.