Premier Old Growth Ponderosa Pine forests at risk | Project summary | FAQ's

Creating A Vision... ways to analyze the project area:
Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Clumpy Pine Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Metolius River Open Pine Open Pine Conifer Corridor Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Clumpy Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Meadow Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Clumpy Pine Open Pine Open Pine Metolius River Clumpy Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Clumpy Pine Moist Conifer Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Open Pine Conifer Corridor Open Pine Meadow Conifer Corridor Conifer Corridor Open Pine Open Pine Conifer Corridor Open Pine Open Pine Conifer Corridor
Landscape Characteristics Deschutes NF Forest Plan Wildfire Defense
open pine Landscape Characteristics
Meadows
Clumpy Pine
Metolius River Conifer Corridor
Moist Conifer Moist Conifer
Moist Conifer
Clumpy Pine
Meadow
Clumpy Pine Metolius River
Moist Conifer Clumpy Pine
Conifer Corridor Meadow Conifer Corridor
Conifer Corridor
Conifer Corridor

How are these Landscape Character zones defined?

These Landscape Characteristics are representative of "focal species areas".

Focal species areas are portions of the landscape that have the best potential biological capability to provide late successional (old growth) habitat for an identified focal or indicator species.

Managing for old growth habitat

The Metolius Basin Project area is within a Late-Successional Reserve under the Northwest Forest Plan. This means that management objectives should protect and enhance late successional and old-growth forest ecosysytems in the area, which serve as habitat for dependent species such as the spotted owl, goshawk, Peck's penstemon, and white-headed woodpecker.

This landscape is capable of producing different kinds of old growth habitats, that are used by different kinds of old growth species.

These landscape character zones display the different kinds of old growth habitats and the species who need these conditions for nesting, foraging, traveling, or growing.

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