![]() These draft criteria represent a starting point for the community conversations to follow during the hearings process. Per the OAR, the WA-MD Combining Zone contains criteria for a set of uses deemed “conflicting” because they could adversely affect mule deer winter range habitat. The current phase of this project follows the procedures in Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) Chapter 660, Division 23 to update or designate a new Goal 5 resource-in this case, the mule deer winter range. For a detailed history and documents relating to Phase 1, visit Wildlife Inventory Update - Phase 1. Utilizing an Interagency Working Group (IWG) of wildlife biologists from state agencies as well as an independent wildlife biologist consultant, the IWG collected and vetted new data to define these new inventories. The first phase of this project took place in 2020-2021, in which Deschutes County initiated the process of considering updates to three of its Goal 5 wildlife inventories. The draft amendments are linked at the bottom of this page, along with maps and Frequently Asked Questions, all in PDF format. This zone and its regulations will be separate from the existing Wildlife Area (WA) Combining Zone, which remains unchanged. ![]() The purpose of the 2023 Mule Deer Winter Range Combining Zone (or WA-MD) is to conserve important mule deer winter range habitat in Deschutes County to protect an important environmental, social and economic element of the area and to permit development compatible with the protection of the mule deer resource. For properties under 20 acres with an existing home, generally no changes are being considered please see the links at the bottom of this page for details. This proposal creates a new mule deer combining (or overlay) zone and a corresponding new code chapter to address uses in that zone. ![]()
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