The topography is spectacular, filled with ridgetops, meadows, and some of the best elk and big game hunting in eastern Oregon, with a resident elk herd. Rudio Mountain Ranch has been leased to an outfitter which has generated annual hunting income of $60,000 to $70,000. The Ranch is located in the Northside Game Management Unit and a total of six Landowner Preference Tags are available for ownership of this size (see Supple­­­mental Information Package for details).

Rudio Mountain Ranch has been managed for commercial timber production for over 60 years and contains an estimated 74 million board feet of well-stocked stands of Douglas fir, white fir, and ponderosa pine, which provides long-term asset growth and opportunity to harvest or obtain potential values by selling carbon credits. Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc. has prepared a Carbon Report for Rudio Mountain Ranch which projects that over the first ten years, a sale of carbon credits could yield $815,000 to $2,700,000. A complete copy of the report is included in the Supplemental Information Package.

There is limited public access to the entire ownership and main entry routes are from Kimberly in the northwest, west from Highway 19 and John Day Fossil Beds National Monument and south from Dayville and Highway 26 along Franks Creek Road.

The BLM owns isolated parcels within the Rudio Mountain Ranch property which provide additional habitat for hunting. There are no public easements to BLM lands through the Ranch. Rudio Mountain Ranch can be purchased in its entirety or is available in four blocks of ownership that range from 1,927± to 14,809± acres (see Supplemental Information Package for detail maps for ownership and access).