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.