Oregon Lakes

Oregon Lakes is a freshwater ecoregion in the western United States.

The ecoregions's streams empty into alkaline lakes or onto playas.

[2] The ecoregion lies in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range, and has a semi-arid and continental climate.

The Oregon Lakes is mostly within the Snake–Columbia shrub steppe terrestrial ecoregion, and the predominant vegetation is low shrubland and sparse grassland.

[2] The Oregon Lakes ecoregion has 23 native species of fish.