[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] The area contains seasonal vernal pools that act as their own self-sufficient ecosystems.
[6] Cook's lomatium or Cook's Desert Parsley is also found in the Agate Desert and only grows naturally elsewhere in the French Flat of Illinois Valley, also in Oregon.
[7] In 1998, Henri Dumont discovered a new species, Dumontia oregonensis, also known as the Hairy Water Flea, in the desert, and it is not known to live anywhere else.