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Malone Springs is a watershed within the Fremont-Winema National Forest in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is located 25 miles northwest of Klamath Falls on mile point 270 43.58 of Oregon Route 140. It provides access to a multi-mile canoe route (and loop) along the westernmost edge of the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. The location of Malone springs allows for close encounters with the teeming marsh of Upper Klamath Lake and outstanding views of old growth, mixed conifer forest on neighboring Pelican Butte immediately to the west.
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The adjacent campground offers camping, boating, fishing and wildlife viewing as well as an unimproved boat launch leading to the canoe trail.
Canoe route
Malone Springs washes into a 15,000 acre marsh and wetland complex of the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is accessible by boat via the 9.5-mile Upper Klamath Canoe Trail. Access points to the route are available by additional boat launches at Rocky Point and Crystalwood Lodge.
Habitat
The west shoreline of Upper Klamath Lake and adjacent Agency Lake serves as a travel corridor for many Nontropical migrant birds on their spring and fall migrations. Mature Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests come right to the edge of Upper Klamath Lake with small pockets of aspen, willow and cottonwood along the shoreline in some locations, which serve as nesting sites for Bald Eagles and Osprey.