| To assist in their Environmental Impact Statement related to the Survey and Manage Program, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service has asked the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center to rank all 312 of the Survey and Manage Species. These include fungi, lichens, mosses, snails, plants and animals which were considered to possibly be at risk due to their association with old-growth forests. For this project, ORNHIC and other private and OSU scientists worked with NatureServe, the Washington Natural Heritage Program, and the California Natural Diversity Database to develop standard global and national ranks for all the survey and manage species. Individual state ranks for California, Oregon and Washington were developed for each state in which they are found. We contracted with the experts in all of the groups whenever possible, and had the ranks reviewed locally and nationally. The results of these assessments are available here. Each rank is developed by evaluating the species abundance, distribution, vulnerability, threats, and how well it is currently protected. A summary form is available for each rank (Global, Oregon, California, and Washington) given to each species.
Other Available Data
List of Experts who ranked and reviewed the Survey and Manage taxa ranks
Definitions of the ranks and the detailed ranking procedure used
Download PDF reports for all fungi, lichens, bryophytes, plants and animals
- Note - these zipped PDF files are large and download slowly over phone lines. |
