Agate Desert

The Agate Desert is a prairie located near White City, Oregon, 53 acres (21 ha)[1] of which is protected as the Agate Desert Preserve.[2][3] The area is not in fact a desert as its name suggests; it is so named because of the abundance of agate, petrified wood, jasper, and other minerals found there.[4] Much of the World War II army training base of Camp White was built in the Agate Desert. The Nature Conservancy is working to preserve the Agate Desert as a native Rogue River Valley grassland.[1]

  1. ^ a b "The Agate Desert". The Nature Conservancy. Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ "The Nature Conservancy's Agate Desert Preserve". Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Agate Desert". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  4. ^ "Jackson County Place Names Database". Jackson County Genealogy Library. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2019.