Northwest Forest Plan - Survey and Manage: Species Specific Direction

Vascular Plants

Please also see the Interagency Special Status and Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP) website for additional species information.

Some Survey and Manage species also have or had Sensitive species status or have information compiled by the Interagency Special Status and Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP). Please navigate to the ISSSSP website, for survey protocols, field guides, inventory reports, and conservation planning documents (that provide habitat information, site management guidance, and more). These documents include the best available scientific information to utilize when applying the 2001 Survey and Manage standards and guidelines to determine survey needs and site management.

Please note that the most efficient way to have all available documents result from your query is to "Search By Taxonomy" and select Taxonomy Group "Vascular Plants – (All Species)" and then select Document Type "All Documents". Or if you are interested in one species, "Search by Species (Scientific)" and select Taxonomy Group "Vascular Plants – (All Species)", submit query. Then select the applicable species name. In addition, you should query "General: Multi-species – Vascular Plants (No Common Name)" to check if the species queried is included in a document with multiple species.

Direction for Vascular Plants

Pre-Disturbance Surveys
Memorandum transmitting Survey Protocol, Version 2 – January 1999 - Adobe .pdf File - 49 kB Attachment 1 - Survey Protocol, Version 2 – December 1998 - Adobe .pdf File - 429 kB "Survey and Manage Strategy 2 species" are no longer applicable. The survey protocol is being included for inventory methodology only and should be applied to all Category A and C vascular plants. Survey triggers are superseded by the January 2001 Record of Decision, standards and guidelines section, page 22, Habitat-Disturbing Activities. Use Forest Service NRM TESP Plants data collections forms located at https://www.fs.usda.gov/r6/issssp/inventories/?protocols.

Site Management
Identification of Non-High Priority Sites: Four-step Process for Category C and D Species – see General Direction page, 2012 Documents section, March 7, 2012 bullet, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r6/reo/survey-and-manage/general-direction.php There are three Category C vascular plants (Cypripedium fasciculatum, Cypripedium montanum, and Platanthera orbiculata) for which this flexibility may be applied. There are no Category D vascular plants. Regional Interagency Executive Committee (RIEC) Memorandum transmitting Amendments to Survey and Manage Management Recommendations Designed to Facilitate Certain National Fire Plan Activities – First Group: Vascular Plants, Lichens, Bryophytes, and Fungi – 2002 - Adobe .pdf File - 49 kB All the vascular plants (Botrychium montanum, Cypripedium fasciculatum, and Eucephalus vialis) included in these management recommendations may apply these flexibilities. Attachment 1 – Survey and Manage Management Recommendation Amendments for Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatments Around At-Risk Communities (Group 1) - Adobe .pdf File - 420 kB Attachment 2 – Survey and Manage Additional Clarifying Questions and Answers (Group 1) About MR Amendments for Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatments Around At-Risk Communities - Adobe .pdf File - 38 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 - 646 kB Attachment 5 – Map of Oregon Showing General Application Area - Adobe .pdf File - 1.47 MB Attachment 6 – Map of California Showing General Application Area - Adobe .pdf File - 4.23 MB Memorandum transmitting Management Recommendations and General Guidance for Use of Survey and Manage Recommendations – 1999 - Adobe .pdf File - 77 kB Attachment 1 - Management Recommendations Species included are as follows. Species with asterisks mean a conservation assessment is available on the ISSSSP website. Allotropa virgata – no longer a Survey and Manage species. Bensoniella oregana Botrychium minganense* Botrychium montanum* Coptis aspleniifolia* Coptis trifolia* Corydalis aquae-gelidae* Cypripedium fasciculatum* Cypripedium montanum Eucephalis vialis (syn. Aster vialis)* Galium kamtschaticum* Platanthera orbiculata Attachment 2 – General Guidance for Use of Survey and Manage Management Recommendations (included at end of the memo)