Deer Gulch

Location:   Rio Blanco County
Size:     1809 acres
Designated:   March 1988
Land Manager:   Bureau of Land Management 
 
This site in Deer Gulch provides habitat for two plant species endemic to Green River shales: Festuca dasyclada (oil shale fescue) and Aquilegia barnebyi (Mancos columbine).  Good quality remnants of Great Basin grassland, mixed mountain shrubland and lower montane Douglas-fir forest communities also occur within the boundaries.