Regional Ecosystem Office (REO) - Northwest Forest Plan

Site Management

• Identification of Non-High Priority Sites for Category C and D Species – March 7, 2012 - IM-OR-2012-036
• Regional Interagency Executive Committee (RIEC) Memorandum transmitting Amendments to Survey and Manage Management Recommendations Designed to Facilitate Certain National Fire Plan Activities – Second Group: Red Tree Vole, Certain Mollusks and Amphibians – 2003 - Adobe.pdf File - 84 kB
  • Attachment 1 – Survey and Manage Management Recommendations Amendments for Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatments Around At-Risk Communities (Group 2) - Adobe.pdf File - 1.64 MB
  • Attachment 2 – Survey and Manage Additional Clarifying Questions and Answers (Group 2) About MR Amendments for Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatments Around At-Risk Communities - Adobe.pdf File - 44 kB
  • Attachment 3 – Taxa Leads and Experts Contact List – This contact list is no longer applicable.
  • Attachment 4 – Map of Washington Showing General Application Area - Adobe.pdf File - 910 kB
  • Attachment 5 – Map of California Showing General Application Area - Adobe.pdf File - 189 kB
  • Attachment 6 – Map of Oregon Showing General Application Area - Adobe.pdf File - 1.06 MB

Pre-Disturbance Surveys

• RIEC Memorandum transmitting survey protocol - 11/27/2012 - Adobe.pdf File - 92 kB
  • Attachment 1 - Survey protocol - Version 3 – 2012 - Adobe.pdf File - 1.477 MB
  • Attachment 2 – Red tree vole survey zones shapefile - Zipped file - 3.76 MB

Site Management - High Priority Sites

• RIEC Memorandum transmitting High Priority Site Management Recommendations for the Red Tree Vole - 5/13/2012 - Adobe.pdf File - 1.35 MB
  • High Priority Site Management Recommendations for the Red Tree Vole - Version 1 – 2012 - Adobe.pdf File - 1.32 MB
    • ArcGIS Map Package containing data layers for viewing the 5th-field watershed characterizations – This map package needs downloaded and then opened with ArcCatalog in an ArcMap session. - Zipped File (ArcGIS MPK File - 32 MB)
    • Fifth-field Watershed Characterizations - Excel .xlsx File - 23 kB

Site Management - Non-High Priority Sites

• RIEC Memorandum transmitting Supplemental Direction for Identification of Non-High Priority Sites Within the “Pilot” Area (includes Umpqua, Willamette & Siuslaw NFs) - 4/22/2003 - Adobe.pdf File - 76 kB
  • Attachment 1 – Process within Pilot Area - Adobe.pdf File - 210 kB
  • Attachment 2 – Map of Pilot Area - Adobe.pdf File - 2.11 MB
  • Attachment 3 - March, 7, 2012 - IM-OR-2012-036 - Identification of Non-high Priority Sites: Four-step Process for Category C and D Species (PDF)

Site Management - Managing Known Sites and Determining Habitat Areas

• RIEC Memorandum transmitting Management Recommendations for the Red Tree Vole - 9/27/2000 - Adobe.pdf File - 95 kB
  • Attachment 1 - Management Recommendations for the Oregon Red Tree Vole, Arborimus longicaudus - Version 2 – 2000 - Adobe.pdf File - 464 kB

Pre-Disturbance Surveys

• Survey protocol - Version 4 – 2016 - Adobe.pdf File - 1.58 MB

Great Gray Owl Broadcast Calls for Pre-Disturbance Surveys

Thanks to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology for recorded material in Tracks 1-7. Thanks to Eleanor A. Pugh for recorded material in Tracks 8-16. To play, left-click on the music format of your choice. To download, right-click on the music format of your choice and select “Save target as”.

Please Note: Some computers may not support directly playing the MP3 audio file. You will need to download and save the file to your computer before you can play them.

Broadcast Calls for Pre-Disturbance Surveys

• Track 1 – Early-season sequence - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 2 – Late-season sequence - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 3 – Male series hoot - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 4 – Female location call - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 5 – Juvenile begging - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 6 – Nest chatter - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 7 – Agitated adult series hoot - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File

Bird Calls that May be Confused with Great gray owl calls and Other Owls You May Encounter During Your Surveys

• Track 8 – Blue grouse - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 9 – Western screech owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 10 – Great horned owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 11 – Northern pygmy owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 12 – Northern spotted owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 13 – Barred owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 14 – Northern saw-whet owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 15 – Flammulated owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File
• Track 16 – Long-eared owl - Windows WMA Audio File - MP3 Audio File

Site Management

• Conservation Assessment – 2012 - Adobe.pdf File - 1.05 MB

Pre-Disturbance Surveys

• Transmittal Memo, October 18, 1999 - Adobe .pdf File - 68 kB
  • Survey Protocol, Version 3 – 1999 - Adobe .pdf File - 18.6 MB

Site Management

• Shasta salamander, Hydromantes shastae – Please see the January 2001 Record of Decision and Standards and Guidelines for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines, page 40 of the Standards and Guidelines section.
• Please see the ISSSSP website for conservation assessments for the following species:
  • Larch Mountain salamander, Plethodon larselli
  • Siskiyou Mountains salamander, Plethodon stormi
  • Van Dyke’s salamander, Plethodon vandykei