APPENDIX L

Survey and Manage Tracking Form: 

Botany Species Survey and Site 

Management Summary
New in the FEIS.
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APPENDIX L

SURVEY & MANAGE TRACKING FORM: BOTANY SPECIES SURVEY AND SITE 

MANAGEMENT SUMMARY

Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest – Methow Valley, Tonasket, and Chelan Ranger Districts

Project Name: Pack And Saddle Outfitter Guide Prepared By: Kelly Baraibar

Project Type: Issuance of 10-year term pack and saddle stock outfitter-guide special use 

permits

Date: December 12, 2012

Location: The analysis area includes portions of the Pasayten and Lake Chelan-Sawtooth 

Wilderness Areas, the North Cascades Scenic Highway Corridor, Sawtooth Backcountry, the 

Bear/Ramsey/Volstead area, and some National Forest System land adjacent to these areas.

S&M List Date: 2011 Settlement Agreement

Figure L-1. Survey & Manage Botany Species 

The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest compiled the species listed below from the 2011 

Settlement Agreement Attachment 1. This includes those vascular and non-vascular plant 

species with pre-disturbance survey requirements (Category A or C species), whose known or 

suspected range includes the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest according to: 

Heritage Program (WNHP) Site Database, Flora of the Pacific NW by Hitchcock and 

Cronquist, and Field Guide to Washington’s Rare Plants 2000 cooperatively produced by 

WNHP and Spokane District BLM. 

This project does not propose habitat-disturbing activities in old-growth. Equivalent Effort predisturbance survey requirements for Category B lichen and bryophytes and Category B fungi 

species are not required.

This list also includes any Category B, D, E, or F species with known sites located within the Pack 

and Saddle Stock Outfitter-Guide analysis area. Applicable management recommendations 

include:

Avoid activities near or upstream from the site that would reduce water quality; 

maintain current environmental conditions at population sites including canopy closure, 

water quality, and sedimentation; and avoid activities that might shade the population 

site.

Avoid activities such as bucking of logs that would directly impact an occupied root 

mass. Follow current Forest Plan standards and guidelines pertaining to wood gathering 

and snag removal have reduced or eliminated the risk of loss to this species. 

Consider incorporation of patch retention areas.
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Figure L-1. Survey and Manage Botany Species

Species S&M 

Category

Survey Triggers Survey Results

Site 

Managem

ent

Within 

Range of 

the 

Species?

Contains 

Suitable 

habitat?

Habitat 

Disturbing*?

Surveys 

Required?

Survey 

Date 

(month/ye

ar)

Sites 

Known or 

Found?

List any Category 

D, E or F species, 

if there are 

known sites 

within the project 

area.

Dermatocarpon

meiophyllizum

E

Yes Yes No Yes 1996 2 Yes1

List Category B 

lichens and 

bryophytes with 

Strategic Surveys 

completed (and 

no Equivalent

Effort Surveys 

required). Site 

management is 

still required for 

these species, in 

all habitat types.

N/A N/A

No OldGrowth 

Forest in 

Analysis

Area 

N/A No N/A 0 N/A

List Category B 

lichens and 

bryophytes with 

Strategic Surveys 

NOT completed 

(and Equivalent 

Effort Surveys 

required), as well 

as all Category B 

Fungi.

N/A N/A

No OldGrowth 

Forest in 

Analysis

Area

N/A No N/A N/A N/A
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Fungi

Albatrellus ellisii

B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Clavariadelphus 

occidentalis B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Clavariadelphus 

sachalinensis B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Cudonia 

monticola B Yes Yes No No 2000 1 Yes2

Gomphus bonarii

B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Gomphus 

kauffmanii B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Gyromytra 

califonrica B Yes Yes No No 1999 2 Yes3

Leucogaster 

citrinus B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Ramaria 

amyloidea B Yes Yes No No 1998 1 Yes4

Ramaria 

aurantiisiccescens B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Ramaria largentii B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Ramaria 

rubrievanescens B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Ramaria 

rubripermanens B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Sarcodon 

fuscoindicus B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Spathularia 

flavida B Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A
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Lichens

Dendriscocaulon 

intricatulum

B

Yes No N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Leptogium 

burnetia var 

hirsutum A Yes No N/A Yes 1999-2003 0 N/A

Leptogium 

cyanescens A Yes No N/A Yes 1999-2003 0 N/A

Nephroma bellum F Yes Yes No Yes 1999-

2003

0 N/A

Peltigera pacifica E Yes No N/A Yes 1999-

2003

0 N/A

Tholurna 

dissimilis B No N/A N/A No N/A 0 N/A

Bryophytes

Schistostega 

pennata

A Yes Yes No Yes 1999-

2003 1 Yes5

Tritomaria 

exsectiformis B Yes Yes No No N/A 0 N/A

Vascular Plants

Botrychium 

montanum

A Yes Yes No Yes 1999-

2003 0 N/A

*“Habitat disturbing” and thereby a trigger for surveys as defined in the 2001 ROD S&Gs (USDA 

and USDI, 2001. p. 22).

N/A = Not applicable

1

The Dermatocarpon meiophyllizum sites are outside of any pack and saddle outfitter-guide 

activities. These two populations are historical; they were not located during recent survey 

efforts. Site management includes: avoid activities near or upstream from the site that would 

reduce water quality; maintain current environmental conditions at population sites including 

canopy closure, water quality, and sedimentation; and avoid activities that might shade the 

population site.

2 The Cudonia monticola site found during surveys is outside of any pack and saddle outfitterguide activities. Site management includes considering incorporation of patch retention 

area.

3 The Gyromytra califonrica sites were found during 1999 surveys. Sites are outside of any 

pack and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Site management includes considering 

incorporation of patch retention area.

 4

The Ramaria amyloidea site was found in 1998, site was not found during surveys for 
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 this project. This population is outside of any pack and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Site 

management includes considering incorporation of patch retention area.

5 The Schistostega pennata site found during surveys is outside of any pack and saddle 

outfitter- guide activities. Site management includes avoiding activities such as bucking of logs 

that would directly impact an occupied root mass.

Statement of Compliance. The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest applied the 2011 

Settlement Agreement Species List to the Pack and Saddle Stock Outfitter-Guide Use Permit, 

completing pre-disturbance surveys, and management of known sites (Table A) required by 

Survey Protocols and Management Recommendations to comply with the 2001 Record of 

Decision and Standard and Guidelines for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection 

Buffer, and other Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines.

Project surveys discovered sites for five Survey and Manage botany species:

Category A Bryophyte (Schistostega pennata): 1999 Pre-disturbance surveys identified 

one site on a root wad of a recently fallen tree. This site was found outside of any pack 

and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Implemented the Management Consideration in 

the Conservation Assessment for Schistostega pennata (Harpel and Helliwell, 2005) to

avoid activities such as bucking of logs that would directly impact an occupied root 

mass. Implementation of current Forest Plan standards and guidelines pertaining to 

wood gathering and snag removal have reduced or eliminated the risk of loss to this

species. 

Category B Fungi (Cudonia monticola): 2000 Pre-disturbance surveys identified one site. 

These sites were found outside of any pack and saddle outfitter-guide activities.

Consider incorporation of patch retention areas (as described in Standards and 

Guidelines 1994, C-41) with occupied sites wherever possible, based on information 

utilized from the Appendix I of the Conservation Assessment for Fungi in Regions 5&6 

and OR/WA/CA BLM (Cushman and Hull, 2007).

Category B Bryophyte (Gyromytra califonrica): 1999 located one site. . These sites were 

found outside of any pack and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Consider incorporation of 

patch retention areas (as described in Standards and Guidelines 1994, C-41) with 

occupied sites wherever possible, based on information utilized from the Appendix I of 

the Conservation Assessment for Fungi in Regions 5&6 and OR/WA/CA BLM (Glavich, 

2007).

Known sites are present within the project for two additional species: 

Category B Fungi (Ramaria amyloidea): 1998 located one site and is outside of any pack 

and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Consider incorporation of patch retention areas (as 

described in Standards and Guidelines 1994, C-41) with occupied sites wherever possible,

based on information utilized from the Appendix I of the Conservation Assessment for 

Fungi in Regions 5&6 and OR/WA/CA BLM (July 2007).

Category E Lichen (Dermatocarpon meiophyllizum): These two populations are historic 

and are outside of any pack and saddle outfitter-guide activities. Site management 

includes: avoid activities near or upstream from the site that would reduce water 

quality; maintain current environmental conditions at population sites including canopy 
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closure, water quality, and sedimentation; and avoid activities that might shade the 

population site (Conservation Assessment for Dermatocarpon meiophyllizum, 2007).