acre Brasada Ranch Golf Resort at Powell Butte is a
thirty-minute drive from the property, and was rated
in 2012 as Oregon’s best destination resort by The
Oregonian.
The Foley Butte Block has exceptional conservation
opportunity due to its location within the Deschutes
River Basin, the second largest river basin in Oregon,
and its containment of Foley, Martin and Willow Creek
headwaters, all tributary to the Deschutes River.
Ochoco Lumber Company in 2003 provided the ini-
tial planting site for restoration of seven miles of
Foley and Martin Creeks as part of the Deschutes Ri-
parian Restoration Carbon Sequestration Project, in
partnership with Deschutes Resources Conservancy,
Climate Trust and Wy’east Resource Conservation
and Development. Foley and Martin Creeks are part
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