The Vance-Ferry Road unit is made of two parcels totaling 135.5 acres located one mile northeast of Mabton. The major cover type is agricultural fields that are farmed under a lease in a small grain/alfalfa hay rotation. It includes about three quarters of a mile of Yakima River shoreline, which consists of a cut-bank and very limited riparian vegetation. Cattle were removed from this site and a buffer was established along the river that exists as a mix of annual and perennial grasses and broadleaf weeds. A small island of natural shrubs, trees and herbaceous vegetation separates the Vance acquisition from the old Ferry Road habitat plot. A single row of mature elm trees lies along two segments of the boundary. Two shrub plots were planted on the Vance unit to break up the agricultural fields and provide more woody cover.