Bear Creek

This Bear Creek sits in Crook County, central Oregon, in the Crooked River drainage — part of the broader central Oregon belt that's produced agate, jasper, and thundereggs for generations of collectors, centered on the Ochoco area east of Prineville. Bureau of Land Management ground here is documented as a public site for collecting petrified wood, some of it agatized, and the DB's moss agate, chalcedony, and drusy quartz listing fits the same regional silica-mineral suite that shows up throughout this part of the Ochoco/Crooked River country. This isn't a single dramatic locality — it's a solid, public, general-purpose central Oregon collecting stretch.

Bear Creek sits in the Crooked River drainage in Crook County, reached from the Prineville/Ochoco area via BLM and Forest Service roads. UNVERIFIED: exact turn-by-turn directions to this specific stretch of Bear Creek — the region has multiple public collecting areas, and this research could not pin down one precise access road for this coordinate specifically.

Surface collecting on BLM ground — walking washes, cut banks, and exposed gravel for float material, standard practice for this style of central Oregon agate country. A rock hammer and chisel help for harder-set thunderegg or nodule material elsewhere in the district, though this entry's specimen list leans toward surface float (moss agate, chalcedony, drusy quartz) rather than nodule digging.

This area is BLM-managed public land, and petrified wood collecting is explicitly documented as allowed on BLM ground in the Bear Creek vicinity. As with all BLM rockhounding in Oregon, personal-use collecting limits apply — confirm current quantity limits with the BLM Prineville District office before a trip; do not restate specific poundage limits here without checking BLM's current published rule.