Map: Upper Columbia Plateau WA - PNWRMS - 2018 gray wolf cap California

California

timber and cattle grazing culminating in the road to preservation as a natural preserve

including Bend

and Kaiser

travel the Sherman Pass Scenic Byway east to the Columbia River

Map: Upper Columbia Plateau WA - PNWRMS - 2018 gray wolf cap CaliforniaThe Upper Columbia Plateau is a diverse and fascinating region of eastern Washington just to the east of the Cascade Mountains. Forests of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine dot a landscape that is otherwise dominated by shrub steppe vegetation, with various species of sagebrush and bunchgrasses. Other special habitats include sand dunes, thin layered lithosols, alkali lake and vernal pools, talus slopes, and riparian areas. This is the hottest and driest