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Survey & Manage Tracking Form:

Botany Species Survey and Site Management Summary

Willamette National Forest, Detroit Ranger District

Project Name: Hwy 46 Timber sale Prepared By: Jennifer Lippert

Project Type: Thinning, Gap Creation, Fuels Date: January 23, 2017

Location: North and South of FS Road 46

S&M List Date: December 2003 Survey and Manage Species List; 2001 ROD Standards and guidelines

Table A. Survey & Manage Botany Species 

The Willamette NF compiled the species listed below from the 2003 Survey and Manage list with 12 

species of special consideration. This includes those vascular and non-vascular plant species with predisturbance survey requirements (Category A or C species), whose known or suspected range includes the 

Willamette National Forest according to: 

• Bryophytes Amendment Protection Buffer Species, Version 2.0, 2000

• Lichens- Version 2.1 Amendment, 2003

• Survey Protocol for Bridgeoporus nobilissimus (W.B. Cooke) Volk, Burdsall & Ammirati

• Vascular Plant Survey and Manage Protocol

This list also includes any Category B, D, E, or F species with known sites located within the Highway 46

Project Area. Applicable management recommendations include:

• Conservation Assessment for Fungi Included in Forest Service Regions 5 and 6 Sensitive and

BLM California, Oregon and Washington Special Status Species Programs July 2007

This project used the January 2001 ROD standards and guidelines and the associated January 2003 

species list, and the four categories of projects exempt from the Survey and Manage standards and 

guidelines as stipulated by Judge Pechman (October 11, 2006 Pechman exemptions). The Pechman 

exemption used was a relief from survey for stands under 80 years of age. 

For stands greater than 80 years of age, surveys are triggered if there is suitable habitat for target 

species and if the proposed project is habitat-disturbing. Thirty four stands were greater than 80 years of 

age and four stands were to be regeneration harvested and required predisturbance surveys. 

Predisturbance surveys were completed for these areas in 2013, 2014 and in 2015. The survey protocols 

used were intuitive controlled as suggested in survey protocols developed for bryophytes, lichens, fungi 

and vascular plant species groups. 

In 2011 and 2012 fungal surveys were completed along the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) 

powerline corridor by contractors for a proposed powerline realignment within the Hwy 46 project area. 

Several survey and manage fungi were located during those surveys. No other incidental survey and 

manage fungal species were documented during project surveys. 

The list of species surveyed included species that are suspected or already documented on Willamette 

National Forest where surveys practical (See Table 3). All survey forms and notes are in the project 

record. Even though many species on the table do not require surveys, species locations were documented 

during other required plant surveys and these “incidental” sites are also reported in this table. 
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It was determined that additional equivalent effort surveys for Category B fungi were not required since 

they only are triggered for habitat-disturbing activities in old-growth habitat. 
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Species S&M 

Category

Survey Triggers Survey Results

Site Management

Within 

Range 

of the 

Species

?

Contains 

Suitable 

habitat?

Habita

t 

Distur

bing*?

Surveys 

Required

?

Survey 

Date 

(month/ye

ar)

Sites 

Known 

or 

Found?

Fungi

Bridgeoporus 

nobillissimus A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

1 Not within units

Chalciporus 

piperatus D Yes Yes Yes No 3 Unit 13,24; 100 foot 

buffers

Clavariadelphus 

occidentalis B Yes Yes Yes No 1 Not within units

Cudonia monticola B Yes Yes Yes No 1 Unit 6, habitat 

dropped

Gomphus clavatus F Yes Yes Yes

No

7 

Units 27,28,29,62,83 

No buffers 

prescribed; unit 28 

within riparian buffer

Helvella elastic B Yes Yes Yes No 1 Unit 26, habitat 

dropped

Leucogaster citrinus B Yes Yes Yes No 4 Unit 17, habitat 

dropped

Marasmius 

applanetipes B Yes Yes Yes No 1 Not within units

Rhizopogon 

truncatus

D Yes Yes Yes No 3 Unit 83; 50 foot 

buffer prescribed

Rhodocybe speciosa B Yes Yes Yes No 1 Not within units

Sparassis crispa Yes Yes Yes No 5 Units 27,30,62, 64; 

no buffers

Tremiscus 

helvelloides D Yes Yes Yes No 1 Not within units

Lichens

Chaenotheca 

chrysocephala B Yes Yes Yes No 7 Unit 53; habitat 

dropped

Chaenotheca 

ferruginea B Yes Yes Yes No 3 Not within units

Chaenothecopsis 

pusilla E Yes Yes Yes No 2 Unit 53, habitat 

dropped from unit

Dendriscocaulon 

intricatulum A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

1 Not within units

Hypogymnia 

duplicata C Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Leptogium 

burnetiae A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No
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Species S&M 

Category

Within 

Range 

of 

Species

Contains 

Suitable 

Habitat?

Habita

t 

Distur

bing?

Surveys 

Required

? Survey 

Dates

Sites 

Known 

or 

Found

Site Management

Lobaria linita A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No 

Nephroma occultum C Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

4

Unit 29, protected 

within within riparian 

buffer

Platismatia 

lacunosa A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No 

Peltigera pacifica E Yes Yes Yes No

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15 35

Units 

1,2,6,13,26,28,31,

44,45,62,83, 270; 

No buffers 

Pseudocyphellaria 

rainierensis A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15 1 site 

Units 24, 83, 87: 

100 foot buffer in 24 

and 83; habitat 

dropped unit 87

Ramalina thrausta A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No 

Bryophytes

Schistostega 

pennata

A Yes No Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Tetraphis geniculata A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Vascular Plants

Botrychium 

minganense A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Botrychium 

montanum

A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Coptis trifolia A Yes Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Corydalis aquaegelidae A Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

Cypripediium 

montanum

C Yes Yes Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No 

Eucephalis vialis A Yes No Yes

Summer 

13, 14 and 

15

No

*“Habitat disturbing” and thereby a trigger for surveys as defined in the 2001 ROD S&Gs (p. 22).
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Statement of Compliance. The Willamette applied the 2003 Survey and Manage Species List to the 

Highway 46 Project, 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.

There are 10 species and 91 sites of survey and manage species documented within the project area (Table 

3). Many of these species are found at multiple sites, especially the uncommon species. Thirty-one of 

these sites are within proposed project units. Most of these species were documented during the proposed 

Cascade Crossing project in 2011 and 2012. Two of these species are category F and do not require site 

management. Protective measures are not required by Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision (F). No 

further discussion is needed for these 2 species.

If found within a unit, the rest of the categorized species may require some type of protective measure to 

maintain species viability. Exceptions to this include one Category E lichen species called Peltigera 

pacifica and a Category E fungus called Sparassis crispa. 

There are 17 sites of Peltigera pacifica within units and 18 known sites outside of units within the project 

area. Only the units have been surveyed, so there are likely many more populations within the project 

area. Because this species is found to be common and well-distributed within the project area and 

forestwide (there are 164 documented populations across the forest currently in our database), no 

protective measures will be prescribed besides avoidance when possible. 

Sparassis crispa is a common fungus prized as an edible. There are 5 known sites in the project area, 4 of 

which are in units. There are 14 other sites across the Forest and because it is a rather common species it 

is likely underreported. No protective measures will be prescribed for these fungi besides avoidance of 

host trees where possible.

Of the remaining 13 Manage Known Sites species (Categories A, B and E), 6 species have no sites within 

proposed project units and 5 have had sites dropped from the unit due to buffers for other sensitive or 

survey and manage species. The remaining species have had buffers prescribed to maintain the host and 

habitat microclimate. Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis populations that are found in units have been 

prescribed 100 foot buffers and one Rhizopogon truncatus population has been prescribed a 50 foot 

buffer. 

/s/ Jennifer Lippert 1/23/2017

________________________________ ________________________________

Jennifer Lippert, Botanist Date

Willamette National Forest