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ACEC Nominated - Coos Bay

ACEC Nomination - Coos Bay District
ACEC Name	Acres	Designation/ Nomination Values	Meets Relevance	Meets Importance	ACEC Recommendation	Rationale
Mehl Ridge	564	Domestic water supply.	Yes	No	Dropped from consideration.	Does not meet importance criteria; resource values are common in the Coast Range.
North Spit Addition	44	Natural systems, botanical (bureau sensitive lichens). Fills ONHP Coast Range Special Species Cell #45, #63, and #68	Yes	Yes	Dropped from consideration.	Pending land tenure actions. Currently designated as "suitable for disposal." Small isolated parcels within area zoned by county as "industrial".
Roman Nose	205	Natural systems (grassy bald)	Yes	Yes	Recommend for further analysis.	Outstanding example of the Oregon Coast Range grass bald system; fragile soils make it vulnerable to adverse change.
South Roman Nose	9,268	Natural systems; botanical, wildlife, fish, and cultural values.	Yes	No	Dropped from consideration.	Most Values are common within the Coast Range; important grassy bald occupies only a small portion of the area and is in the Roman Nose ACEC nomination (see above).
Wassen - Vincent	10,894	Natural systems; botanical, wildlife, fish and cultural values	Yes	No	Dropped from consideration.	Most Values are common within the Coast Range; the nominated area includes existing Wassen Creek ACEC, which covers values meeting the importance criteria (fishery resident cutthroat populations and natural process/system).
Rocky Peak	1,828	Natual systems (balds); botanical: Monardella purpurea -- ONHP Coast Range Special Species Cell 91).	Yes	Yes	Recommend for further analysis.	Fits ONHP Cell -- Siskiyou monardella; Rare meadow, knob-cone pine communities, and distinctive, relatively intact headwaters drainage uncommon in the Coast Range.
Steel Creek	1,381	Natural systems; fish and historic values.	Yes	Yes	Recommend for further analysis.	Large, structurally complex unmanaged late-successional community that is relatively undisturbed and uncommon in the Coast Range; portion of historic Brewster Trail; one of the most productive spawning reaches in the Coquille Basin.
Brownson Ridge	398	Natural systems and wildlife values.	Yes	Yes	Recommend for further analysis.	Well-developed Port-Orford-Cedar stand with all age classes -- potential reference site; special status wildlife.
Euphoria Ridge	241	Natural systems (western red cedar)	Yes	Yes	Recommend for further analysis.	Potential ONHP Cell (old-growth western red cedar series stand complex rare within the Southern Coast Range province).