Oregon Biodiversity Information Center
Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (ORBIC)
ORBIC’s primary mission is to track the distribution and status of all of Oregon’s flora and fauna as is possible. For species considered to be at-risk in Oregon, location and population data is managed for all of the observations and occurrences in the state.
ORBIC is Oregon's local member of the NatureServe Network of natural heritage programs, utilizing their rigorous core standards and methodologies to assess status, risk, and condition of the state's biodiversity. Standardized methods allow sharing of conservation information across jurisdictional boundaries.
ORBIC works to answer three questions: What is it? Where is it? How is it doing?
If you are interested in learning more about our work, please contact Eleanor Gaines.
Core Work
ORBIC Special Projects
ORBIC Special Projects
Western Snowy Plover
The western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Oregon Biodiversity Information Center staff have surveyed and monitored snowy plovers along the Oregon coast since the 1990s. Working with partners in the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation, The Nature Conservancy, and many others, ORBIC staff have collected decades of data on plover distribution, nesting locations and success, and predator controls and exclosure methods. Through these and other conservation efforts, populations of the western snowy plover have steadily increased. See ORBIC's snowy plover project webpage for more information.
Species Accounts
INR-OSU and INR-PSU/ORBIC have been working with the U.S. Forest Service Southwest Region (R5) to write species accounts for species of potential conservation concern on their lands as required for updating national forest plans. See INR's species accounts project page for more information.
BLM Aquatic Assessment Inventory, and Monitoring
Lotic Habitat Assessment. Collecting stream condition data for habitat assessment for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Aquatic Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Program in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, and Nevada.
Wetland and Riparian Monitoring. Collecting wetland condition data for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Aquatic Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Program in Southeastern Oregon and Northeastern California.
Invasive Species
Oregon iMapInvasives
ORBIC has partnered with the Oregon Marine Board, Metro, the West Multnomah and Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the Oregon Invasive Species Council, and others to centralize invasive species information for Oregon. These locations are shared through the online tool, iMapInvasives.
iMapInvasives is an online, GIS-based invasive species reporting and querying tool developed by NatureServe, the New York Natural Heritage Program, and many other collaborators. It is focused on the need for land managers, regional planners, and others who are working to prevent, control or manage invasive species to have locational information for where invasives are found. iMap also places an emphasis on developing functionality to aid in early detection, rapid response efforts.
The iMapInvasives public map is accessible without a login. To view additional data, enter sightings online, and otherwise take full advantage of the iMapInvasives site, you will need to create a free account.
To learn more about iMapInvasives, please visit the Oregon iMapInvasives Resources site.
You can see the species that are tracked on iMapInvasives at our Jurisdiction Species List page. If you are an iNaturalist user, you can also contribute observations to our iMapinvasives iNaturalist Project.
Links to Other Invasive Species Resources
- ODA Noxious Weed Control Program. The Oregon Department of Agricultures's Noxious Weed Control Program protects Oregon´s natural resources from the invasion and proliferation of exotic noxious weeds.
- ODA WeedMapper. WeedMapper is a Web-based spatially referenced database of noxious weeds that anyone may query. The database includes locations of noxious weeds throughout Oregon as collected by responsible federal, state, and local agencies. Maintained by the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
- Oregon Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plan (PDF). The goal of the plan is to minimize the harmful ecological, economic, and social impact of Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) through prevention and management of introduction, population growth, and dispersal of ANS into, within, and from Oregon.
- Oregon Invasive Species Council. OISC was created by the Oregon legislature in 2002. Its purpose is to conduct a coordinated and comprehensive effort to keep invasive species out of Oregon and to eliminate, reduce, or mitigate the impacts of invasive species already established in Oregon. The OISC Web site has links to many resources about invasive species in Oregon.
- Oregon Invasive Species Hotline - Oregonians can report and upload photos of suspected invasives and interact with invasive species experts.
- The Silent Invasion - This is the companion site the 2008 Oregon Public Broadcasting series on invasive species in Oregon. It provides extensive links and information on invasive species in Oregon including a video archive of stories about invasives in Oregon.
- US Army Corps of Engineers Invasive Species Management. USACE employs the latest economically efficient technologies and research; and biological, mechanical and chemical control methods. USACE also stays on the leading edge of invasive species management by developing new pest control techniques through its Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Program and Aquatic Plant Control Research Program.
- USDA Forest Services' Invasive Plants Inventory. The Forest Service Natural Resource Information System (NRIS) supports a corporate computer application for Invasive Plants Inventory. The application is an Oracle database, utilizing Oracle data entry forms and ESRI’s Spatial Data Engine (SDE) for storing and managing spatial data in Oracle. ESRI’s ArcMap is used to display the Invasive Plants Feature Class containing the invasive plants inventory polygons.
- USGS Non-Indigenous Aquatic Species. Tracks aquatic vertebrate and invertebrate species throughout the US and provides fact sheets on hundreds of species.
If you are interested in learning more about our work, please contact Jacob Rose.
Mapping Natural Vegetation
Mapping Natural Vegetation
If you are interested in learning more about our work, please contact Rachel Brunner.
Existing Vegetation
Existing Vegetation
The Institute for Natural Resources has long been involved in mapping and modeling Oregon's vegetation and habitats. The following resources map existing vegetation at the time of their production (check the descriptions for the year).
Forest Landscape Mapping
INR collaborates with a variety of partners to develop maps of vegetation and other important landscape characteristics. Our products range from mid-scale maps that extend across multiple states, to more project-tailored data with smaller geographic footprints. These data have been instrumental to land managers and have enabled critical ecological research.
Mid-scale existing vegetation mapping provides information about current vegetation composition and structure at the resolution and scale needed to inform a range of conservation, management, and planning activities. INR’s vegetation mapping team uses a variant of nearest neighbor imputation to create mid-scale maps that provide rich data depth and wall-to-wall coverage for all land ownerships within target regions. These maps support collaborative landscape management across administrative boundaries by providing information that can be used to inform planning, from estimating timber supplies, carbon stocks, and potential fuels for wildlands fires, to understanding the extent and distribution of habitat for plant and animal species, to modeling future landscape conditions under alternative climate and disturbance scenarios.
Key strengths of INR’s mid-scale existing vegetation maps include the following:
- Rich data depth. Our imputation maps are linked to many attributes that provide detailed information about vegetation characteristics including species composition, plant functional groups, community type, forest structure, and more.
- Flexibility. INR works with mapping partners to create vegetation classifications and attributes tailored to specific management and planning needs. Because of the rich depth of data linked to each map unit, new summary variables can be created or reformulated after the maps are made.
- Suitability for landscape-level assessment. Because INR’s imputation maps are assessed for bias at multiple scales and maintain covariance between modeled attributes, they are well-suited to landscape-level assessments and summaries.
- Updatable. Maps can be more rapidly updated using modeled information based on recent disturbances as an alternative to recomputing the whole map.
Over the past two decades, INR has collaborated with the USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region (R3), Pacific Northwest Region (R6), and Intermountain Region (R4) to develop existing vegetation maps of Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and parts of Idaho and Wyoming. Since their creation, our imputation maps have significantly improved project implementation and planning by supporting management and shared stewardship across all land ownerships. See the list of projects on our Forest Landscapes: Landscape Mapping page.
Integrated Landscape Assessment Project
The ILAP project produced a multitude of habitat and forest structure maps across Oregon. Washington, Arizona, and New Mexico. You can find these vegetation data, maps, models, and analyses products on the Western Landscapes topic page of the Oregon Explorer.
LEMMA Forest and Vegetation Mapping Products
You can find additional maps and data related to forest structure, carbon monitoring, and fuels at the LEMMA project website, a collaboration between the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, and the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University (OSU), based at the Forestry Sciences Lab on the OSU campus.
NW ReGAP Ecological Systems Map of Oregon
In the 2000s INR's Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (ORBIC) received funding from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) to integrate all available 1:24,000 vegetation maps and coverages. Previously, the only statewide vegetation or land coverages available for Oregon had been the two OR-GAP coverages described below. ORBIC and OR-GAP has worked hard to link all existing vegetation coverages to the National Vegetation Classification System. The newest version of the map, a grid of ecological systems throughout Oregon (downloadable zip folder), was created in 2010.
Previous OR-GAP Existing Vegetation and Land-Use Coverages
Two statewide vegetation and land cover GIS maps were created as part of OR-GAP in Oregon. The first was produced in 1992 by Jimmy Kagan and Steve Caicco. This map was done using available data, with polygons hand drawn and digitized on 1:250,000 satellite images. This existing vegetation cover and the associated vegetation manual (downloadable zip folder) are available from the Oregon Geospatial Office.
The second OR-GAP coverage is the 1998 Statewide Existing Vegetation and Landcover map (downloadable zip folder). For this, OR-GAP contracted Chris Kiilsgaard of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. This map was completed using 30 meter TM imagery and was used in the analysis for the final OR-GAP report. The vegetation types have also been crosswalked to wildlife habitats.
National Park Service Vegetation Maps
National Park Service Vegetation Maps
In conjunction with NatureServe, INR made remote sensing-based vegetation maps for the major national parks in the Pacific Northwest.
Detecting climate change impacts on the distribution of vegetation requires an accurate map of baseline conditions made using a repeatable methodology. The National Park Service Inventory & Monitoring Program has embarked on a major vegetation mapping project for Mount Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades, and Lewis and Clark National Parks.
These vegetation maps used the revised National Vegetation Classification System, and were targeted to the Alliance level, roughly equivalent to dominant canopy species with some major types further differentiated by temperature or moisture modifiers. Multitemporal Landsat TM imagery, supplemented by color-infrared aerial photography, LiDAR elevation and vegetation height data where available, and extensive field training data collection, formed the basis of the mapping, which was performed using Random Forests data mining techniques.
The new maps provide a baseline against which to measure vegetation change and will also provide useful for studies of the impacts of climate change on a variety of vegetation processes, including carbon dynamics and disturbance.
The Lewis and Clark National Historical Park map and report were completed in 2012.
Final products for the other parks will be available from the National Park Service website at NCCN Vegetation Classification and Mapping Reports and at INR Publications.
Historical Vegetation Mapping
Historical Vegetation Mapping
Land managers and researchers often want to know what a landscape looked like years ago, to compare how the ecology has changed, assess the rate of change, and make decisions about how to manage the area for the future.
INR and its partners have created datasets of historical vegetation in Oregon at both fine and coarse scales, using several different data sources. INR and its partners have also created maps of historical vegetation and stream networks for portions of the Pacific Northwest, based on interpretation of public land survey records of the federal government's General Land Office (GLO), and, where available, U.S. Coast Survey topographic maps ("T-Sheets"). The maps depict vegetation at coarse scale (forest, woodland, savanna, prairie) and finer scale (species assemblages). In some areas where historical stream networks were altered by later agricultural and urban development, we mapped stream alignments as delineated at the time of survey.
Oregon Statewide Historical Vegetation
Oregon Statewide Historical Vegetation
As part of the Oregon Gap Analysis Program, ORBIC worked with the Defenders of Wildlife and Jim Strittholt to develop the first statewide map depicting historical vegetation. Scale varies throughout the coverage, depending on the source data, but the overall scale is 1:100,000. The map was first compiled in 1999 and is updated as needed. It integrates several sources of historical spatial data:
- The Andrews and Cowlin timber maps for Oregon and Washington (1936-1937, digitized by USFS 1994-1996, scale = 1:253,440),
- GLO-based coverage where available (compiled 1994-present by ORBIC and partners, scale = 1:24,000),
- NRCS SSURGO data (scale = 1:24,000), and
- Current land cover mapping from the USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The Andrews and Cowlin layer forms the background into which more detailed coverages were incorporated. It was mapped to forest type, with a secondary classification for young forests. Because the layer lacked detail for non-forest vegetation, ORBIC supplemented the data with more detailed information contained in the sources cited above. Because SSURGO data present potential vegetation based on soil types, they were used to replace post-settlement land cover types such as agriculture or urban occurring on well-defined riparian and floodplain soils. Where SSURGO data were not available, these types were replaced with potential pre-settlement vegetation based on the composition of adjacent polygons, and the presence of rivers and streams for riparian areas and bottomlands. Recent burns and regenerating young forests were reverted to forest.
Download the Oregon Statewide Composite Historical Vegetation map. It is also posted on the Available Historical Maps page.
GLO-based Historical Mapping in the Pacific Northwest
GLO-based Historical Mapping in the Pacific Northwest
INR and its partners have created maps of historical vegetation and stream networks for portions of the Pacific Northwest, based on interpretation of public land survey records of the federal government's General Land Office (GLO), and, where available, U.S. Coast Survey topographic maps ("T-Sheets"). The maps depict vegetation at coarse scale (forest, woodland, savanna, prairie) and finer scale (species assemblages). In some areas where historical stream networks were altered by later agricultural and urban development, we mapped stream alignments as delineated at the time of survey.
See the pages below for use and interpretation of GLO data, links to spatial data, history, and other resources. You can also navigate through these pages using the menu at right.
- Beyond Land Surveys: Use of GLO Survey Data in Ecology and History
- Current Coverage
- Available Historical Vegetation Maps
- Reports
- Methods and Vegetation Classification
- Books - Regional and General
- GLO Online Resources -- Pacific Northwest
- Acknowledgements
Beyond Land Surveys
Beyond Land Surveys
Established in 1812, the federal General Land Office (GLO) was charged with surveying public lands belonging to the federal government, and then conveying these lands to state or private ownership. Land surveyors, under contract with GLO, were required to follow specific survey instructions. These methods were developed first for Ohio in 1785, and refined over the decades as federal land surveys progressed westward to the Pacific Coast. The surveys created the familiar rectangular grid of townships and ranges, now called the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), that covers 30 states. In 1946, the GLO was merged with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Grazing Service to form the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The GLO surveys created a more or less consistent dataset spanning 200 years and covering nearly 1.5 billion acres. Since the 1920s, ecologists, historians, and others have used GLO records as a source of information on landscape condition and settlement as seen at the time of survey:
- Land surveyors routinely use historical GLO data because it is the foundation of all land ownership records, and all land survey lines are interconnected.
- Ecologists and Botanists use GLO survey lines as a grid of transects, along which surveyors recorded changes in vegetation, and information about trees and shrubs every half mile. They also had to record information at random points where lines intercepted trees, rivers, streams, lakes, and other natural features. Notes on streams and rivers often included depth, current, alluvium, and condition of the banks. Witness tree data are particularly useful in assessing historical stand density, fire history, and species distributions. They are being used to restore plant community structure, species composition, and ecological processes (see Witness Trees below).
- Historians use the GLO grid in a similar way to ecologists, because surveyors were required to record where lines intercepted man-made features such as roads, fencelines, farmyards, and towns. Surveyors routinely recorded distances and compass bearings to prominent buildings that were visible along the survey lines. These records have been used to relocate early settlements, support claims to water rights, and validate early census records. GLO users of any stripe also often are drawn to its history because they inevitably wonder who the surveyors were, what they saw, and how they did their work without roads, electronic survey equipment, chainsaws, and even maps.
The landscape described in GLO notes has often erroneously been called "presettlement," implying pristine ecosystems untouched by human hands, but in most places surveyors saw lands shaped by at least 10,000 years of occupation and management by native peoples.
Witness Trees
When trees were available in the landscape, GLO survey instructions called for two witness trees at quarter corners and at river crossings ("meander posts"), and four witness trees at section corners. When survey crews established corners, they marked them with wooden posts, rocks, or pits and mounds of soil. They then recorded compass bearings and distances to selected witness trees, and recorded the species and diameters of the trees. On each tree they cut away a patch of bark, and scribed the wood beneath with the appropriate township and range number.
Species of trees were often selected subjectively for durability, their known resistance to decay. This was done to ensure that the marked "witness" to the established survey corner would last as long as possible. In durable trees, the scribed area would heal over, leaving a scar ("cat face") on the trunk. These scars are often used to relocate survey corners, and the bark can be cut away to reveal the preserved scribe marks beneath (see photos below).
Witness tree selection is one element of uncertainty when reconstructing historical vegetation based on GLO data. Surveyors probably selected trees for a variety of reasons, including the species' durability, its ease of scribing, or simply because it was within easy reach. Therefore, ecologists cannot be certain that the species selected, its diameter, or its distance from the corner reflected characteristics of the stand of trees as a whole at the time of survey. Using witness tree data, species recorded along the section line, and species recorded in the "general description" recorded at the end of each section line, ecologists can make general inferences about stand composition and structure. However, an element of uncertainty remains and is an inherent part of working with historical data.
Relocation of a corner established in 1884. Corner cap is at the base of the pole in the center foreground. Two witness trees are in the background, their scars opened to reveal the scribed marks beneath.
Photo courtesy of Larry Marshik, Marshik & Associates.
Scar or "cat face" on a witness tree established in 1884, prior to removal of the bark. Photo courtesy of Larry Marshik, Marshik & Associate
Witness tree with scar cut away, revealing scribe marks made when corner was established in 1884. Photo courtesy of Larry Marshik, Marshik & Associates.
Dominion Land Survey
Canada's Dominion Land Survey System (DLS) is the standard government survey system used from Manitoba west to British Columbia. Begun in 1871, it was based on American GLO/PLSS methodology. The two survey grids adjoin along the international border. Although there are some differences (courtesy Province of Saskatchewan) between the two systems, the DLS will be instantly recognizable to those familiar with GLO surveys. Much of the discussion on these web pages can also be applied to the DLS.
Current GLO Coverage
Historical vegetation maps are available for the gray shaded areas shown below. Red townships are in production. (Last updated December 2017)
Available Maps
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Washington
DISCLAIMER FOR GLO VEGETATION MAPS
Maps of historical vegetation are for planning and research purposes only. They are only estimates of the original occurrence, location, and extent of vegetation types and wetlands. They do not necessarily include all landscape features that may have been present historically, and the features may not be mapped in their correct historical locations or configurations. The maps should not be used as a substitute for current wetland determinations or delineations performed by a qualified wetland specialist. As a general rule, small landscape features usually are under-represented and consequently have artificially low acreages. Per current Federal and Oregon Wetland Mapping Standards, the mapping of historical wetlands is "neither designed, nor intended, to support legal, regulatory, or jurisdictional analyses of wetland mapping products, nor does it attempt to differentiate between regulatory and non-regulatory wetlands." Mapping of historical wetlands is also not intended to be a hydrography dataset, and it should not be used to infer hydrologic connectivity, or lack thereof, between wetland polygons.
OREGON
Oregon Statewide Composite Historical Vegetation
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Historic Vegetation, Oregon (1938).
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General Land Office (GLO) and U.S. Coast Survey
Click on the thumbnails below for a preview of the maps. Click on the map citations to download the maps. These are ZIPped (compressed) GIS shapefiles. You will need to uncompress the files and use shapefile-viewing software to view and use the data. There are free spatial tools available from ESRI.
WASHINGTON
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Available Reports
Available Reports
The following are available reports relating to the GLO Historical Mapping Project. Click on the title of the report to download the file.
OREGON
Douglas County
Hickman, O.E. & J.A. Christy. 2014. Historical vegetation of the Tiller Area, Douglas County. Report to Douglas County Commissioners. 82 pp.
Rogue Valley, Lower Applegate, Upper Illinois Valley
Hickman, O.E. & J.A. Christy. 2011. Historical vegetation of central southwest Oregon, based on GLO survey notes. Final report to USDI Bureau of Land Management. Medford District, Oregon. 124 pp.
Willamette Valley and Columbia River Floodplain
Christy, J.A. & E.R. Alverson. 2011. Historical vegetation of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, circa 1850. Northwest Science 85: 93-107.
Methods and Vegetation Classification
Methods and Vegetation Classification
- John A. Christy, Oregon Biodiversity Information Center, Institute for Natural Resources, Portland State University and Edward R. Alverson, The Nature Conservancy of Oregon. December 2011.
- John A. Christy, Edward R. Alverson, Molly P. Dougherty, Susan C. Kolar, Clifford W. Alton, Susan M. Hawes, Gene Hickman, Jennifer A. Hiebler, Eric M. Nielsen. Oregon Biodiversity Information Center, Institute for Natural Resources, Portland State University. November 2016.
Available Historical Vegetation Maps
Available Historical Vegetation Maps
DISCLAIMER FOR GLO VEGETATION MAPS
Maps of historical vegetation are for planning and research purposes only. They are only estimates of the original occurrence, location, and extent of vegetation types and wetlands. They do not necessarily include all landscape features that may have been present historically, and the features may not be mapped in their correct historical locations or configurations. The maps should not be used as a substitute for current wetland determinations or delineations performed by a qualified wetland specialist. As a general rule, small landscape features usually are under-represented and consequently have artificially low acreages. Per current Federal and Oregon Wetland Mapping Standards, the mapping of historical wetlands is "neither designed, nor intended, to support legal, regulatory, or jurisdictional analyses of wetland mapping products, nor does it attempt to differentiate between regulatory and non-regulatory wetlands." Mapping of historical wetlands is also not intended to be a hydrography dataset, and it should not be used to infer hydrologic connectivity, or lack thereof, between wetland polygons.
OREGON
Oregon Statewide Composite Historical Vegetation
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Historic Vegetation, Oregon (1938).
Historic Oregon Land Cover 1851: three layers available on OregonExplorer (to view layer descriptions, expand the Habitats and Vegetation layer drop-down, then the Land Cover drop-down, in the left-hand Layers menu in the map viewer) |
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General Land Office (GLO) and U.S. Coast Survey
Click on the thumbnails below for a preview of the maps. Click on the map citations to download the maps. These are ZIPped (compressed) GIS shapefiles. You will need to uncompress the files and use shapefile-viewing software to view and use the data. There are free spatial tools available from ESRI.
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Umpqua Valley
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Willamette Valley and Columbia River Floodplain
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Books
Books
These books provide insights on how GLO surveys were made, why they were made, and who did the original work. Links to online sources or ordering information are provided where they could be found.
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Atwood, K. 2008. Chaining Oregon, Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855. McDonald and Woodward Publishing Co., Blacksburg, Virginia. 264 pp.
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White, C.A. 2001. A Casebook of Oregon Donation Land Claims. Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon. LLM Publications, Oregon City, Oregon. 240 pp. |
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Gordon, K. 2006. Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia. Sono Nis Press, Winlaw, British Columbia. 373 pp. Available in local bookstores or direct from Sono Nis Press. |
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| White, C.A. 1991. A History of the Rectangular Survey System. USDI Bureau of Land Management. 2nd printing. Stock No. 024-011-00150-6. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 774 pp. | |
| Bandy, W.R. & G.R. Haste. 1991. Running Line, Recollections of Surveyors. USDI Bureau of Land Management BLM/SC/GI-91/001+9600. U.S. Government Printing Office. 66 pp. | |
| Cazier, L. 1976. Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain, 1785-1975. USDI Bureau of Land Management. Stock No. 024-011-00083-6. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 228 pp. | |
Online Resources
Online Resources
GLO (Public Land Survey System, or PLSS)
Overview
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Overview, Oregon -- see Loy et al. (2001), Atlas of Oregon : 18-19. [Not available digitally].
Survey Notes and Plat Maps
- Oregon and Washington -- BLM
- Other states -- BLM
- Oregon Plat and DLC maps -- University of Oregon Library
- USGS quad maps with GLO annotations for Klamath region -- Oregon Institute of Technology
U.S. Coast Survey
Topographic maps ("T-sheets") of the U.S. Coast Survey (later called U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and more recently the National Geodetic Survey) have been integrated whenever possible with GLO data because of the data-rich detail they impart to map products. They were based on meticulous field mapping conducted between 1852 and 1889. Cartography of the Coast Survey maps was superior to that of the GLO township plat maps, and when geo-referenced, is substituted for linework shown in the plat maps.
The Coast Survey maps provide highly accurate delineations of small-patch vegetation and stream alignments at a level of detail not possible from GLO data, while the GLO data provide information on vegetation, streams, and cultural features that are not available from Coast Survey data. When combined, the two sources of information provide high-quality cartography on the composition and extent of various vegetation types at the time of survey.
Land cover symbology used in the Coast Survey maps was interpreted by Shalowitz (1964) and Graves et al. (1995), and provides important detail in vegetation structure and hydrology.
Oregon
- Lower Columbia River (University of Washington)
Washington
- Lower Columbia River (University of Washington). Geo-referenced T-sheets and landcover maps digitized from T-sheets.
- San Juan Islands (Tom Schroeder)
Regional GLO and Other Historical Vegetation Websites
Oregon
- Blue Mountains (David Powell, U.S. Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest)
Washington
- Blue Mountains (David Powell, U.S. Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest)
- San Juan Islands (Tom Schroeder)
History of Surveying
- Virtual Museum of Surveying
- Washington -- Olson Engineering
- BLM National Office -- Cadastral History
- Principal Meridian Project
- University of Oregon Map Library -- GLO Resources
- Surveyors Historical Society
Professional Surveyors Associations in Pacific Northwest
- Idaho -- Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors
- Oregon -- Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon
- Washington -- Land Surveyors' Association of Washington
- British Columbia -- Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors
References
- Shalowitz, Aaron L., and Michael W. Reed. Shore and Sea Boundaries. Office of Coast Survey, 1964.
- Graves, Jon K., John A. Christy, Patrick A. Clinton, Peter L. Britz. Historic Habitats of the Lower Columbia River. Astoria: Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce, 1995.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
We thank the Oregon State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for freely providing ongoing access to GLO data and expert advice from its cadastral survey staff.
Since 1994, funding for various portions of this project has been provided by:
- City of Portland
- Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership
- Metro
- Oregon Community Foundation
- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Oregon Department of State Lands
- Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
- The Nature Conservancy
- USDI Bureau of Land Management (Eugene District, Medford District, Roseburg District, Salem District, Oregon State Office)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- USDA Forest Service
Oregon Statewide Historical Vegetation
Oregon Statewide Historical Vegetation
As part of the Oregon Gap Analysis Program, ORBIC worked with the Defenders of Wildlife and Jim Strittholt to develop the first statewide map depicting historical vegetation. Scale varies throughout the coverage, depending on the source data, but the overall scale is 1:100,000. The map was first compiled in 1999 and is updated as needed. It integrates several sources of historical spatial data:
- The Andrews and Cowlin timber maps for Oregon and Washington (1936-1937, digitized by USFS 1994-1996, scale = 1:253,440),
- GLO-based coverage where available (compiled 1994-present by ORBIC and partners, scale = 1:24,000),
- NRCS SSURGO data (scale = 1:24,000), and
- Current land cover mapping from the USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The Andrews and Cowlin layer forms the background into which more detailed coverages were incorporated. It was mapped to forest type, with a secondary classification for young forests. Because the layer lacked detail for non-forest vegetation, ORBIC supplemented the data with more detailed information contained in the sources cited above. Because SSURGO data present potential vegetation based on soil types, they were used to replace post-settlement land cover types such as agriculture or urban occurring on well-defined riparian and floodplain soils. Where SSURGO data were not available, these types were replaced with potential pre-settlement vegetation based on the composition of adjacent polygons, and the presence of rivers and streams for riparian areas and bottomlands. Recent burns and regenerating young forests were reverted to forest.
Download the Oregon Statewide Composite Historical Vegetation map. It is also posted on the Available Historical Maps page.
In addition, three statewide 1851 historical land cover maps are available on the OregonExplorer website (to view layer descriptions, expand the Habitats and Vegetation layer drop-down, then the Land Cover drop-down, in the left-hand Layers menu in the map viewer).
Vegetation & Habitat Maps
Vegetation & Habitat Maps
Oregon Statewide Habitat Map. This is a map of Oregon's 77 habitats created in 2018, based on 2016 imagery. The map is to be used to help map the distribution of wildlife habitat in Oregon, and is a reflect of current vegetation conditions across the state. View metadata and download map.
Rangeland Vegetation Maps and Tools. INR is working with many collaborators to develop rangeland vegetation maps and tools to support the SageCon Partnership to reduce threats to the sagebrush ecosystem, sage-grouse and ranching communities in Oregon.
Integrated Landscape Assessment Project Maps. The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project for Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and New Mexico produced many vegetation maps and datasets for Oregon, including existing vegetation and forest structure as well as predicted vegetation based on various management and climate states.
NW ReGAP Ecological Systems Map of Oregon. In the 2000s ORBIC received funding from OWEB to integrate all available 1:24,000 vegetation maps and coverages. Previously, the only statewide vegetation or land coverages available for Oregon had been the two OR-GAP coverages described below. ORBIC and OR-GAP has worked hard to link all existing vegetation coverages to the National Vegetation Classification System. The newest version of the map, a grid of ecological systems throughout Oregon, was created in 2010 and is available from the Oregon DAS GEO Spatial Data Library.
Oregon Wetlands Cover. The Oregon Wetlands Cover represents the most comprehensive dataset available for the location and composition of the state's wetlands. It uses as a base all available digital data from the National Wetland Inventory (NWI; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS), to which has been added draft NWI mapping (Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center and The Wetlands Conservancy, ORNHIC and TWC), mapping from Local Wetland Inventories (LWIs; Department of State Lands, DSL), wetlands along state highways (Oregon Department of Transportation, ODOT), and mapping of individual sites by a variety of federal, state, academic, and nonprofit sources. View map description and download layer.
Oregon's greatest wetlands. Oregon has lost over half of the wetlands present when the first settlers arrived in the 1800s. To ensure that the remaining wetlands are conserved, The Wetlands Conservancy has identified Oregon's Greatest Wetlands. While all wetlands are important, Oregon's Greatest Wetlands identifies the most biologically significant wetlands in Oregon. A group of twenty wetland ecologists, familiar with the entire state of Oregon, identified the locations of the biologically important wetlands. The next step was collecting and adding information for wetland resources identified by the Oregon Natural Heritage Program, National Wetlands Inventory, Coastal, Klamath and Willamette Valley Sub Basin Plans, and Oregon Biodiversity Program. Wetland ecologists were then asked to review and add to the maps. Simultaneously we collected existing physiographic and biological information about each of the sites. View map description and download layer.
Natural Areas
Natural Areas
The Oregon Legislature established the Oregon Natural Areas Program in 1979 as a way to protect high quality native ecosystems and rare plant and animal species. The program is managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and is guided by the Oregon Natural Area Plan, a document that describes the natural areas program in Oregon. The plan lists the ecosystems and species that drive the program, guides the selection of priority areas for the establishment of new natural areas, and assists researchers, educators, and the public in learning about or managing designated natural areas. INR's Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (ORBIC) helped develop the Oregon Natural Areas Plan and assists the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department by maintaining natural areas records, providing scientific advice and coordinating with regional and national natural areas programs. ORBIC has a long history working with the Natural Areas Program and has helped guide it since 1979, when ORBIC was called the Oregon Natural Heritage Program.
If you are interested in learning more about our work, please contact Rachel Brunner.
Core Work
Dedicated Natural Heritage Conservation Areas
Dedicated Natural Heritage Conservation Areas
Dedicated natural areas in Oregon are called Natural Heritage Conservation Areas. For an area to be dedicated, it must first be registered, and must also have a management plan describing how the key biological resources will be managed. Natural Heritage Conservation Areas are similar to federal Research Natural Areas in that they are designed to serve educators, researchers, resource managers and the general public with access to Oregon's natural heritage resources far into the future. INR's Oregon Biodiversity Information Center assists state agencies in identifying candidate sites for dedication.
Eight sites are currently dedicated:
Netarts Spit
Onion Peak
Steens Summit
Additional information on these sites is available from ORBIC.
Natural Areas Plans
Natural Areas Plans
2020 Oregon Natural Areas Plan
A draft of the 2020 Natural Areas Plan has been completed, and is out for review. Also available is a spreadsheet of Natural Areas names, status, and acreage. An updated Oregon's Natural Areas 2020 geodatabase contains a spatial layer of sites.
2015 Oregon Natural Areas Plan
The 2015 Oregon Natural Areas Plan lists the rare species, ecosystems, and geological features present in Oregon and where they are represented by protected lands. In preparation for the 2015 Plan update, an Oregon's Natural Areas Geodatabase (2015) was produced. This spatial layer contains all registered and dedicated sites and those natural areas included in the Oregon Natural Areas Plan as conserving rare species, habitats, or geological features. If you find errors or omissions in this geodatabase please contact Lindsey Wise with updated information.
Natural Areas Plan History
The Oregon Legislature established the Oregon Natural Areas Program in 1979 as a way to protect high quality native ecosystems and rare plant and animal species. The program is managed by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and is guided by the Oregon Natural Area Plan, a document that describes the natural areas program in Oregon. The plan lists the ecosystems and species that drive the program, guides the selection of priority areas for the establishment of new natural areas, and assists researchers, educators, and the public in learning about or managing designated natural areas. INR's Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (ORBIC) helped develop the Oregon Natural Areas Plan and assists the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department by maintaining natural areas records, providing scientific advice and coordinating with regional and national natural areas programs. ORBIC has a long history working with the Natural Areas Program and has helped guide it since 1979, when ORBIC was called the Oregon Natural Heritage Program.
The goals of the Oregon Natural Areas Program are to:
- Create a discrete and limited system of natural areas representing the full range of Oregon's natural heritage resources. These areas are to be used for scientific research, education and nature interpretation.
- Establish a process and means for public and private sector voluntary cooperation in the development of a system of natural areas.
- Provide advice to managers of natural areas on the management and use of such areas and provide information concerning the conservation of natural heritage resources and special species to the state, federal and local agencies that manage lands within Oregon.
The Oregon Natural Areas program collaborates with regional and national natural areas programs, including an interagency Natural Areas Committee, that is overseen by the U.S. Forest Service. This committee meets twice a year, and has representatives from the federal land management agencies, state agencies, The Nature Conservancy, and others interested in Natural Areas. The Natural Areas Association helps coordinate efforts throughout the U.S. and the world, and promotes information exchange regarding the management and establishment of natural areas.
Federal, state, and private organizations have interests in preserving Oregon's natural areas for the benefits these areas provide. To researchers and educators, natural areas provide a relatively undisturbed setting in which to study native ecosystems and species. To resource managers, natural areas can provide a setting for understanding important statewide land management issues. To the public, natural areas provide access to native forests, grasslands, tide pools, bogs, and sagebrush communities. Natural areas also provide habitat for Oregon’s rarest plants and animals like the Fender's Blue Butterfly, the emblem of INR's Natural Areas Program.
Designating natural areas requires sound information regarding characteristics of potential sites, and maintaining areas requires knowledge of proper management techniques. The Natural Areas Program supports the work of agencies and organizations throughout the state by providing such information. INR is part of the Natural Areas Committee, an interagency effort to establish natural areas led by the US Forest Service.
Related Materials
2015 Oregon Natural Areas Plan (2015) (PDF) - Adopted by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department in January, 2016.
Oregon Natural Areas Plan (2010) (PDF) - The plan was adopted by the State Land Board on December 14, 2010. This book describes the Natural Areas Program in Oregon. This is Oregon’s first Natural Areas Plan, and serves as an update to the “Oregon Natural Heritage Plan” which was released every 5 years, from 1988 – 2003.
Register of Natural Heritage Resources - The Oregon Register lists Oregon's most important sites with significant natural heritage resources. Sites on the list are primarily on state lands, but also includes voluntarily listed sites on private or municipal lands, and a few federally owned sites which were registered before they were acquired by the government. Any natural area in the state can become part of the Registry through a voluntary process established by the Oregon Legislature.
List of Dedicated Natural Heritage Conservation Areas - Sites on the Register of Natural Heritage Resources can also be designated as Dedicated Natural Heritage Conservation Areas. These sites have additional protections to sites on the Registry of Natural Heritage Resources.
List of Research Natural Areas - These are natural areas on federal lands, that were designated by federal agencies for research purposes.
Oregon Natural Areas Act (2012) - These laws set out the definitions of the Natural Areas Program, the Advisory Committee, agency duties, the process of dedicating natural areas, and other findings. All Oregon laws are viewable on the Oregon laws search site, and laws related to state lands can be found with Chapter 273, with the Natural Areas Program law starting at 273.563.
Register of Natural Heritage Resources
Oregon State Register of Natural Heritage Resources
The Oregon Register lists Oregon's most important sites with significant natural heritage resources. Sites on the list are primarily on state lands, but also includes voluntarily listed sites on private or municipal lands, and a few federally owned sites that were registered before they were acquired by the government. The Council recommends candidates for registration to the State Land Board for approval. There are 100 natural areas currently registered. For the names and owners of the sites listed on the register, see below. Additional information on these sites, including a basic registry form, is available from ORBIC.
Status as of June 30, 2015
Sites currently on the Register:
(owner in parenthesis followed by the year the site was added to the register)
- Ace Williams Mountain (BLM) - 2001
- Ainsworth (OPRD) - 1993
- Bald Hill (City of Corvallis) - 1991
- Bandon Marsh (USFWS) - 2002
- Beaver Creek (OPRD) – 2009
- Benson Addition, Multnomah Falls (OPRD) - 1991
- Billy Burr Lake (USFWS) - 1993
- Blacklock Point (OPRD) - 1988
- Blind Slough Swamp Preserve (TNC) - 1995
- Blowout Ponds (OPRD) - 1993
- Borax Lake Preserve (TNC) - 1994
- Bridal Veil Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Bull Flat (DSL) - 1990
- Camassia Preserve (TNC) - 2003
- Cape Arago Marine Gardens (OPRD) - 1992
- Cape Blanco (OPRD) – dedicated in 1991
- Cape Ferrelo (OPRD) - 1999
- Cape Lookout (OPRD) - 1988
- Cape Meares (OPRD) – dedicated in 1988
- Cape Sebastian (OPRD) - 1999
- Carl Washburn Blowout Ponds (OPRD) - 1993
- Cascade Head Preserve (TNC) - dedicated in 1985
- Clear Lake Ridge Preserve (TNC) - 1989
- Coburg Ridge Preserve (TNC) – 2008
- Collier State Park (OPRD) - 1992
- Columbia Oaks (Hood River Co, OPRD) - 1993
- Conley Lake (ODFW) - 1999
- Coopey Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Crissey Field (OPRD) - 1999
- Crooked Creek (OPRD) - 1991
- Crook Point (USFWS) -1998
- Crump Lake Preserve (TNC) - 1993
- Crump Lake South (DSL) - 1990
- Davis Slough (DSL) - 1989
- Denman Vernal Pools (ODFW) - 1994
- Eight Dollar Mountain (OPRD, TNC) - 1988
- Elowah Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Flagg Island (ODOT) - 1993
- Gary & Chatham Islands (Multnomah Co) - 1992
- Givan Park (Jackson Co.) - 1993
- Hart Mountain additions (USFWS) – 1991, 1994
- Humbug Mountain (OPRD) - 1999
- Illinois River Forks (OPRD) - 1997
- Indian Sands (OPRD) - 1991
- Jackson-Frazier Wetlands (Benton County) - 1991
- Juniper Hills Preserve (TNC) - 1998
- Kingston Prairie Preserve (TNC) - 1997
- Knappa Slough Island (DSL) - 1999
- Ladd Marsh (ODFW) – 1988, 2004
- Latourell Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Lindsay Prairie Preserve (TNC) - 1988
- Little North Santiam River (FS) - 1991
- Little Rock Island and Shore (PRD) - 1988
- Logan Valley (Burns Paiute Tribe) - 1999
- Luckiamute Landing (OPRD) - 1993
- Memaloose (OPRD) - 1993
- Middle Fork John Day River Preserve - Dunston (TNC) - 1990
- Middle Fork John Day River Preserve - Oxbow (TNC) - 1999
- Mill Creek Ridge (BLM) - 1991 & (CLT) 2014
- Miller Island (ODFW) - 1992
- Multnomah Falls (OPRD, FS) - 1991
- Nehalem Bay (OPRD) - 1991
- Nesika Beach Preserve (TNC) -1998
- Nestucca Bay (DSL) - 1994
- Netarts Spit (OPRD) – dedicated in 1989
- Noble Oaks (Willamina) (TNC) – 2014, 2015
- North Fork Owyhee River (BLM) - 2004
- Ochoco State Wayside (OPRD) - 1990
- Onion Peak Preserve (DSL, ODF, NCLC) – dedicated in 1988
- Ophir Dunes (ODOT) - 1988
- Otter Point (OPRD) – 1999
- Piute Creek (DSL) - 1992
- Pumpkin Ridge (Private - GROWISER) - 1994
- Rattlesnake Butte (CTGR) - 1986
- Rooster Rock (OPRD) – 1990
- Rough and Ready Creek Preserve (TNC) - 1994
- Rough and Ready State Wayside (OPRD) - 1989
- Round Top Butte Preserve (TNC) - 1986
- Rowena Plateau (OPRD) - 1993
- Saddle Mountain (OPRD) – dedicated in 2005
- Scappoose Bay (OPRD) -1999
- Simpson Reef – Cape Arago (DSL) - 1992
- Skull & Little Wallace Island (DSL) - 1991
- Smith Island (DSL) - 1989
- Snag Boat Bend (USFWS) - 1999
- South Grouse Gap (FS) - 1998
- South Slough (DSL) - 1991
- Succor Creek (PRD) – 1988
- Squally Point Dunes (OPRD) - 1993
- Starvation Creek and Warren Creek (OPRD, FS) - 1990
- Steens Mountain – Ankle Creek (BLM) - 2001
- Steens Summit (DSL) - dedicated 1979
- Succor Creek (OPRD) - 1988
- Sycan Marsh Preserve (TNC) – 1988, 2013
- Table Rocks (TNC, BLM) – 1986, 2008
- Tillamook Bay Preserve (TNC) - 2011
- Tom McCall Preserve at Rowena (TNC) - 1986
- Twin Rocks Bluffs (OPRD) - 1999
- Tygh Valley (OPRD) - 1991
- Umpqua Lighthouse (OPRD) – 2002
- Upper Klamath Lake (USFWS) - 2013
- Wallace and Anunde Islands (USFWS) – 1993
- Westport Slough (USFWS) - 1991
- West Sand Island (COE) - 1988
- Whalen Island (OPRD) - 2001
- Whetstone Savanna Preserve (TNC) - 1995
- Willamette Confluence Preserve (TNC) – 2010
- Williamson River Delta Preserve (TNC) – 1997, 2007
- Willow Creek Preserve (TNC) - 1998
- Winchuck Slope (DSL) - dedicated 1979
- Woodcock Creek (DSL) - 1990
- Yamhill Oaks Preserve (TNC) – 2009, 2013
- Zumwalt Prairie Preserve (TNC) – 2001, 2006
Ownership abbreviations:
- CLT – Columbia Land Trust
- CTGR – Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
- DSL – Department of State Lands
- ODF – Department of Forestry
- ODFW – Department of Fish and Wildlife
- ODOT – Department of Transportation
- OPRD – Parks and Recreation Department
- TNC – The Nature Conservancy
- TWC – The Wetlands Conservancy
Register of Natural Heritage Resources
The Oregon Register lists Oregon's most important sites with significant natural heritage resources. Sites on the list are primarily on state lands, but also includes voluntarily listed sites on private or municipal lands, and a few federally owned sites that were registered before they were acquired by the government. The Council recommends candidates for registration to the State Land Board for approval. There are 100 natural areas currently registered. For the names and owners of the sites listed on the register, see below. Additional information on these sites, including a basic registry form, is available from ORBIC.
Oregon State Register of Natural Heritage Resources
Status as of June 30, 2015
Sites currently on the Register:
(owner in parenthesis followed by the year the site was added to the register)
- Ace Williams Mountain (BLM) - 2001
- Ainsworth (OPRD) - 1993
- Bald Hill (City of Corvallis) - 1991
- Bandon Marsh (USFWS) - 2002
- Beaver Creek (OPRD) – 2009
- Benson Addition, Multnomah Falls (OPRD) - 1991
- Billy Burr Lake (USFWS) - 1993
- Blacklock Point (OPRD) - 1988
- Blind Slough Swamp Preserve (TNC) - 1995
- Blowout Ponds (OPRD) - 1993
- Borax Lake Preserve (TNC) - 1994
- Bridal Veil Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Bull Flat (DSL) - 1990
- Camassia Preserve (TNC) - 2003
- Cape Arago Marine Gardens (OPRD) - 1992
- Cape Blanco (OPRD) – dedicated in 1991
- Cape Ferrelo (OPRD) - 1999
- Cape Lookout (OPRD) - 1988
- Cape Meares (OPRD) – dedicated in 1988
- Cape Sebastian (OPRD) - 1999
- Carl Washburn Blowout Ponds (OPRD) - 1993
- Cascade Head Preserve (TNC) - dedicated in 1985
- Clear Lake Ridge Preserve (TNC) - 1989
- Coburg Ridge Preserve (TNC) – 2008
- Collier State Park (OPRD) - 1992
- Columbia Oaks (Hood River Co, OPRD) - 1993
- Conley Lake (ODFW) - 1999
- Coopey Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Crissey Field (OPRD) - 1999
- Crooked Creek (OPRD) - 1991
- Crook Point (USFWS) -1998
- Crump Lake Preserve (TNC) - 1993
- Crump Lake South (DSL) - 1990
- Davis Slough (DSL) - 1989
- Denman Vernal Pools (ODFW) - 1994
- Eight Dollar Mountain (OPRD, TNC) - 1988
- Elowah Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Flagg Island (ODOT) - 1993
- Gary & Chatham Islands (Multnomah Co) - 1992
- Givan Park (Jackson Co.) - 1993
- Hart Mountain additions (USFWS) – 1991, 1994
- Humbug Mountain (OPRD) - 1999
- Illinois River Forks (OPRD) - 1997
- Indian Sands (OPRD) - 1991
- Jackson-Frazier Wetlands (Benton County) - 1991
- Juniper Hills Preserve (TNC) - 1998
- Kingston Prairie Preserve (TNC) - 1997
- Knappa Slough Island (DSL) - 1999
- Ladd Marsh (ODFW) – 1988, 2004
- Latourell Falls (OPRD) - 1993
- Lindsay Prairie Preserve (TNC) - 1988
- Little North Santiam River (FS) - 1991
- Little Rock Island and Shore (PRD) - 1988
- Logan Valley (Burns Paiute Tribe) - 1999
- Luckiamute Landing (OPRD) - 1993
- Memaloose (OPRD) - 1993
- Middle Fork John Day River Preserve - Dunston (TNC) - 1990
- Middle Fork John Day River Preserve - Oxbow (TNC) - 1999
- Mill Creek Ridge (BLM) - 1991 & (CLT) 2014
- Miller Island (ODFW) - 1992
- Multnomah Falls (OPRD, FS) - 1991
- Nehalem Bay (OPRD) - 1991
- Nesika Beach Preserve (TNC) -1998
- Nestucca Bay (DSL) - 1994
- Netarts Spit (OPRD) – dedicated in 1989
- Noble Oaks (Willamina) (TNC) – 2014, 2015
- North Fork Owyhee River (BLM) - 2004
- Ochoco State Wayside (OPRD) - 1990
- Onion Peak Preserve (DSL, ODF, NCLC) – dedicated in 1988
- Ophir Dunes (ODOT) - 1988
- Otter Point (OPRD) – 1999
- Piute Creek (DSL) - 1992
- Pumpkin Ridge (Private - GROWISER) - 1994
- Rattlesnake Butte (CTGR) - 1986
- Rooster Rock (OPRD) – 1990
- Rough and Ready Creek Preserve (TNC) - 1994
- Rough and Ready State Wayside (OPRD) - 1989
- Round Top Butte Preserve (TNC) - 1986
- Rowena Plateau (OPRD) - 1993
- Saddle Mountain (OPRD) – dedicated in 2005
- Scappoose Bay (OPRD) -1999
- Simpson Reef – Cape Arago (DSL) - 1992
- Skull & Little Wallace Island (DSL) - 1991
- Smith Island (DSL) - 1989
- Snag Boat Bend (USFWS) - 1999
- South Grouse Gap (FS) - 1998
- South Slough (DSL) - 1991
- Succor Creek (PRD) – 1988
- Squally Point Dunes (OPRD) - 1993
- Starvation Creek and Warren Creek (OPRD, FS) - 1990
- Steens Mountain – Ankle Creek (BLM) - 2001
- Steens Summit (DSL) - dedicated 1979
- Succor Creek (OPRD) - 1988
- Sycan Marsh Preserve (TNC) – 1988, 2013
- Table Rocks (TNC, BLM) – 1986, 2008
- Tillamook Bay Preserve (TNC) - 2011
- Tom McCall Preserve at Rowena (TNC) - 1986
- Twin Rocks Bluffs (OPRD) - 1999
- Tygh Valley (OPRD) - 1991
- Umpqua Lighthouse (OPRD) – 2002
- Upper Klamath Lake (USFWS) - 2013
- Wallace and Anunde Islands (USFWS) – 1993
- Westport Slough (USFWS) - 1991
- West Sand Island (COE) - 1988
- Whalen Island (OPRD) - 2001
- Whetstone Savanna Preserve (TNC) - 1995
- Willamette Confluence Preserve (TNC) – 2010
- Williamson River Delta Preserve (TNC) – 1997, 2007
- Willow Creek Preserve (TNC) - 1998
- Winchuck Slope (DSL) - dedicated 1979
- Woodcock Creek (DSL) - 1990
- Yamhill Oaks Preserve (TNC) – 2009, 2013
- Zumwalt Prairie Preserve (TNC) – 2001, 2006
Ownership abbreviations:
- CLT – Columbia Land Trust
- CTGR – Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
- DSL – Department of State Lands
- ODF – Department of Forestry
- ODFW – Department of Fish and Wildlife
- ODOT – Department of Transportation
- OPRD – Parks and Recreation Department
- TNC – The Nature Conservancy
- TWC – The Wetlands Conservancy
Research Natural Areas
Research Natural Areas
Research Natural Areas (RNA) are federal lands managed for research and education purposes. The majority of designated natural areas in Oregon are part of the federal Research Natural Areas program.
The RNA program was created to:
- Preserve examples of all significant natural ecosystems for comparison with those influenced by man
- Provide educational and research areas for ecological and environmental studies
- Preserve gene pools of typical and endangered plants and animals
In the Pacific Northwest, the DoD Army Corps of Engineers, USDA Forest Service, USDI National Park Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Department of Energy all participate in the program. The U.S. Forest Service has provided a regional RNA coordinator to help manage the Pacific Northwest Interagency Natural Areas Network and RNA committee. This committee meets biannually to promote the program and coordination on the establishment and management of these areas.
In addition to RNAs, the Bureau of Land Management has established many sites that have significant natural area values as Areas of Critical Environmental Concern. These sites are recognized along with RNAs, State Natural Heritage Conservation Areas, and Marine Reserves as critical components of the natural area network. RNAs and ACECs are included in the 2010 map and listing of natural areas of Oregon (from 2010 Natural Areas Plan).
Rare Species
Rare Species
INR's Oregon Biodiversity Information Center (ORBIC) was formed in large part to aid in the conservation of Oregon's rare species and ecosystems. The rich diversity of ecosystems and native plants and animals is one of Oregon's most distinctive and valued qualities. Oregon has rain forests, dry Ponderosa pine forests, oak woodlands, alpine meadows, prairies, deserts, marshes, estuaries, dunes, rocky headlands, lakes and streams, and an abundance of plants, animals, fungi, algae, and other species that inhabit them.
ORBIC helps preserve these species and habitats in Oregon by cataloging rare species locations, ranking species by their rarity and risk of extirpation, mapping ecosystem types and habitats, creating species distribution models, monitoring snowy plovers on the Oregon coast, allocating Section 6 funds to endangered invertebrate projects, and participating in a variety of local and regional projects with a wide range of agencies, organizations, and partnerships.
You can learn more about the species on our rare species list and contribute your own observations to assist in conservation efforts on our Rare Species of Oregon iNaturalist Project. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife also has an Oregon Wildlife Conservation iNaturalist Project focusing on Oregon Conservation Strategy Species and other Oregon wildlife.
Additional archived projects include a downloadable Excel spreadsheet Rare Plant Guide to Oregon's threatened and endangered plants and state and global rank assessments for several species under the Survey and Manage program for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
If you are interested in learning more about our work, please contact Eleanor Gaines (for animals) and contact Gabriel Campbell (for plants).
Endangered Invertebrates
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has granted Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Natural Areas Program limited authority to administer and manage a program for federally threatened and endangered invertebrate species, as provided under Section 6 of the US Federal Endangered Species Act.
ORBIC supports the rare and endangered invertebrate program in the following ways:
- Gather as much information as possible on those invertebrates that are currently considered rare, threatened or endangered in order to enable managers to protect critical habitat or populations.
- Promote inventory and taxonomic work on undescribed or poorly known species which may face significant threats.
- Assist in the USFWS recovery efforts for the three invertebrates already protected under the Endangered Species Act. This includes coordination, inventory, management and research projects for the Oregon silverspot butterfly, the Fender's blue butterfly, Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, Franklin’s bumblebee, and the vernal pool fairy shrimp.
The list of invertebrate species in the book Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species of Oregon reflects our current understanding of the status of the rare invertebrates in Oregon. The list, however, represents only a fraction of the diversity of invertebrate species found in Oregon, and is generally biased towards groups that have been well studied (e.g. caddisflies, butterflies, mollusks), and is lacking for groups of other species that are poorly known. In cooperation with federal agencies and universities, we are hopeful that our ongoing efforts and partnerships will continue to build upon our current knowledge of rare invertebrate species in Oregon.
You can download a spreadsheet of the invertebrate list or view the PDF of our current and archived RTE books at our Rare Species page.
Oregon Rare Species Publications
One of the Oregon Biodiversity Information Center's main tasks is to list and rank rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) species in Oregon. Using our Biotics biodiversity database of species occurrences throughout the state and by consulting with agencies, specialists, academics, and the public, ORBIC reviews and publishes this list every two to three years.
Species ranks are important for natural resource management, prioritization of restoration or conservation efforts, and to highlight species that need more research or protection. The ranks that ORBIC produces are shared internationally through the NatureServe network of natural heritage programs and conservation data centers.
Definitions of ranks, lists, and abbreviations used in the RTE publications can be found on the RTE Definitions page.
Versions of our Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species publication that are available as PDF format are listed below with links to those documents. Paper copies of older editions of the book may be available. Details on obtaining printed copies from Odin Ink at PSU are at the bottom of the page.
Oregon Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species Publications
| The full publication is in prep. In the meantime, excerpts will be posted as they become available. | ||
| Excerpts by Category | PDF Excerpts | Excel Excerpts |
| Vascular Plants - final version, January 2023 | 2023 Vascular Plant List | 2023-rte-vascs.xlsx |
| Non-Vascular Plants and Fungi - final version, January 2023 | 2023 Non-Vascular Plant and Fungi List | 2023-rte-nonvascs.xlsx |
| Additional Resources | ||
| Summary of Vascular and Non-Vascular Plant and Fungi Changes | 2022 Plant and Fungi Species Recommendations (Excel) | |
| Codes and Abbreviations | 2023 Codes and Abbreviations |
| Full 2019 Publication in PDF Format | 133 pages | 3.1 MB |
| Excerpts by Category | PDF Excerpts | Excel Excerpts |
| Vascular Plants | Vascular Plant List with Drops and Name Changes | 2019-rte-vascs.xlsx |
| Non-Vascular Plants and Fungi | Non-Vascular Plant List with Drops and Name Changes | 2019-rte-nonvascs.xlsx |
| Vertebrate Animals | Vertebrate Animal List with Drops and Name Changes | 2019-rte-verts.xlsx |
| Invertebrate Animals | Invertebrate Animal List with Drops and Name Changes | 2019-rte-inverts.xlsx |
| Additional Resources | ||
| Summary of Vascular and Non-Vascular Plant and Fungi Changes | ORBIC 2018 Rare Plant and Fungi Meeting Recommendations.xlsx | |
| Summary of Vertebrate Animal Changes | Book_verts_2019_changes.xlsx | |
| Summary of Invertebrate Animal Changes | Book_Inverts_2019_changes.xlsx |
| Full 2016 Publication in PDF Format | 130 pages | 2.3 MB |
| Excerpts by Category | PDF Excerpts | Excel Excerpts |
| Vascular Plants | Vascular Plant List | 2016-rte-vascs.xlsx |
| Non-Vascular Plants and Fungi | Non-Vascular Plants and Fungi List | 2016-rte-nonvascs.xlsx |
| Vertebrate Animals | Vertebrate Animal List | 2016-rte-verts.xlsx |
| Invertebrate Animals | Invertebrate Animal List | 2016-rte-inverts.xlsx |
| Additional Resources | PDF Resources | Excel Resources |
| Ecoregion Map | OR Ecoregion and County Map | |
| Codes Used | 2016 Codes | |
| Summary of Vascular Plant Changes | vasc_2016_changes_summary.xlsx | |
| Summary of Non-vascular and Fungi Changes | nonvas_2016_changes_summary.xlsx | |
| Summary of Animal Changes | 2016_rte_animal_changes_summary.xlsx | |
| Errata | errata_040517.xslx |
| Full 2013 Publication in PDF Format | 111 pages | 1.1 MB |
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| Excerpts by Category | PDF Exerpts | Excel Excerpts |
| Vascular Plants | Vascular Plant List | 2013-vascs.xlsx |
| Non-vascular Plants/Fungi | Non-Vascular Plant/Fungi List | 2013-nonvascs.xlsx |
| Vertebrate Animals | Vertebrate Animal List | 2013-verts.xlsx* |
| Invertebrate Animals | Invertebrate Animal List | 2013-inverts.xlsx** |
| Additional Resources | PDF Resources | Excel Resources |
| Ecoregion Map | OR Ecoregion and County Map | |
| Codes Used | 2013 Codes | |
| County Names and Abbreviations | ORCountyAbbrev.xlsx | |
| Summary of Vascular Changes | 2013-vasc-rank-changes.xls | |
| Summary of Non-Vascular Changes | 2013-nonvasc-changes.xls | |
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* Prior to 10/10/2013, this file had some errors in the federal status column. These have been corrected in the current file. ** Updated 12/29/2014. Updated distribution of Pterostichus johnsoni and federal status of Euphydryas editha taylori. |
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| Full 2010 Publication in PDF Format | 105 pages | 1.6 MB |
| Excerpts by Category | PDF Exerpts | Excel Excerpts |
| Vascular Plants | Vascular Plant List | 2010-vascs.xls |
| Non-vascular Plants/Fungi | Non-Vascular Plant/Fungi List | 2010-nonvascs.xls |
| Vertebrates | Vertebrate List | 2010-verts.xls |
| Invertebrates | Invertebrate List | 2010-inverts.xls |
| Additional Resources | ||
| Ecoregion Map | OR Ecoregion and County Map | |
| Codes Used | 2010 Codes |
| Full 2007 Publication in PDF Format | 100 pages | 1.3 MB |
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| Excerpts by Category | Excel Sheet | |
| Vascular Plants | 2007-vascs.xls | |
| Non-vascular Plants/Fungi | 2007-nonvascs.xls | |
| Vertebrates | 2007-verts.xls | |
| Invertebrates | 2007-inverts.xls | |
| Full 2004 Publication in PDF Format | 105 pages | 1.3 MB |
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| Excerpts by Category | Process Notes | Excel Sheet |
| Vascular Plants | Vascular Process Notes | Vascular Plant List |
| Non-vascular Plants/Fungi | Nonvascular Process Notes | Non-Vascular Plant/Fungi List |
| Vertebrates | Vertebrate Process Notes | Vertebrate List |
| Invertebrates | Invertebrate Process Notes | Invertebrate List |
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Rare, Threatened and Endangered Vascular Plants in Oregon (auth. Jean Siddall et al.) |
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Notes on Species Lists in PDF and Spreadsheet Formats
These spreadsheets contain the same information in the RTE publication, but in an easily sortable format. Files are Microsoft Office and Open Office compatible.
A note on federal status: Before 2019, in the book and the PDF lists, federal status was reported on the state level. In the Excel lists, federal status was reported on the national level. For example, Columbia spotted frog is a federal Candidate in Oregon (C), but other populations in the US do not have this status, so its national federal status is partial status (PS). After 2019, both the PDFs and Excel excerpts only report the federal status as it applies to populations in Oregon.
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Rare Species Ranking, Definitions, and Documentation
Ranking Systems
An important responsibility of ORBIC is to review and rank rare, threatened, and endangered species of Oregon. We assign Heritage Ranks to animals, plants, and fungi that are or may become rare in Oregon. Heritage Ranks are decided through expert review, discussion, input from interested parties, and trends in sightings and population data.
Heritage Ranks
The Heritage Ranks are a part of an international ranking system first developed by The Nature Conservancy and now managed by NatureServe. This system is used by Heritage programs in all 50 states in the USA, at the 8 Canadian Conservation Data Centres, and network partners in several Latin American countries. A brief definition of these ranks can be found below. You can find more detailed discussion of these ranks at NatureServe's Conservation Status page.
In addition to ranking each species' conservation status, Heritage programs also rank each occurrence, or population group, of species that are found in each state. If you are interested in learning how we rank occurrences, see the Ranking Species Occurrences - A Generic Approach article by NatureServe, updated in January 2008. More background information on occurrence ranking can be found in the NatureServe Ranking Methodology publication from April 2009.
State and Federal Ranking Systems
In addition to our Heritage Ranks, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) also rank species. We include these rankings in our publication, Rare,Threatened and Endangered Species of Oregon.
You can view the current ODFW and USFWS rankings for vertebrates at ODFW's Wildlife Division. ODFW has also compiled a Sensitive Species list to address species which are not currently considered threatened but which may need proactive protection to maintain their populations. Current ODA plant listings are found at their Plant Conservation pages.
Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species of Oregon
ORBIC publishes this book every two or three years with updated ranks for rare species in Oregon. The latest version of the RTE book is available as a PDF file at our Rare Species Lists page. Archived PDF versions of the RTE books are also available on this page. Paper copies of older editions of the book may be available. If you are interested in these paper editions, please contact [email protected]. Future editions of the RTE book will be available as a PDF file only.
Ranking Definitions
ORBIC participates in an international system for ranking rare, threatened and endangered species throughout the world. The system was developed by The Nature Conservancy and is now maintained by NatureServe in cooperation with Heritage Programs or Conservation Data Centers (CDCs) in all 50 states, 9 Canadian provinces, and in 13 Latin American countries. The ranking is a 1-5 scale with 1 being critically imperiled and 5 being secure. When determining species rank many factors are taken into account, including the number of known occurrences, threats, inherent sensitivity, area occupied, and other biological and anthropogenic factors. Documentation for several species ranking decisions are available on our Ranking Documentation information (see below).
Global Ranks
Ranks are developed for different portions of a species range. The first and most critical rank describes the species status globally, and best describes the risk of extinction. This is called the Global Rank and begins with a "G". If the taxon has a trinomial (a subspecies, variety or recognized race), this is followed by a "T" rank indicator. A "Q" at the end of this line indicates the taxon has taxonomic questions. National Ranks beginning with the letter "N" describe a species' status in specific nations such as the United States, Mexico, or Canada, but are not often used in the US.
State Ranks
The most widely used NatureServe rank in the United States are the State Ranks, which describe the rarity of a species within each state's boundary. These State Ranks begin with the letter "S". Global, National, and State ranks all use a 1-5 ranking system, summarized below:
1 = Critically imperiled because of extreme rarity or because it is somehow especially vulnerable to extinction or extirpation, typically with 5 or fewer occurrences.
2 = Imperiled because of rarity or because other factors demonstrably make it very vulnerable to extinction (extirpation), typically with 6-20 occurrences.
3 = Rare, uncommon or threatened, but not immediately imperiled, typically with 21-100 occurrences.
4 = Not rare and apparently secure, but with cause for long-term concern, usually with more than 100 occurrences.
5 = Demonstrably widespread, abundant, and secure.
H = Historical Occurrence, formerly part of the native biota with the implied expectation that it may be rediscovered.
X = Presumed extirpated or extinct.
U = Unknown rank.
? = Not yet ranked or assigned rank is uncertain.
More details on the Heritage Ranking system and more definitions can be found at the NatureServe Web site and on their Conservation Status page. A complete description of the ranking process is available from Natureserve's Methodology for Assigning Ranks.
Heritage Lists
ORBIC evaluates the NatureServe ranks and further refines the data for state application through placing species on their Lists 1 through 4. The fact that Oregon and California have such high rates of species endemism was the reason for the implementation of the 1-4 Heritage Listings in Oregon and California. In particular, most heritage programs consider all G1, G2 or G3 taxa as needing protection. Based on a snapshot search of NatureServe explorer, 1138 taxa in Oregon are ranked G1-G3 (or T1-T3). Of these, 615 taxa ranked as a G3 (or T3, excluding taxa with G3 in range ranks). Many of these are rare endemics which have few documented threats. Because of this, ORBIC evaluates G3 taxa individually based the significance of the species Oregon distribution, and overall threats to the taxa. This evaluation is the primary analysis used to determine which ORBIC list they are placed on.
Brief Summary of ORBIC Lists:
List 1 contains taxa that are threatened with extinction or presumed to be extinct throughout their entire range. These are the taxa most at risk, and should be the highest priority for conservation action. Includes many rare Oregon endemic species.
List 2 contains taxa that are threatened with extirpation or presumed to be extirpated from the state of Oregon, but are secure or abundant elsewhere. These are often peripheral or disjunct species which are of concern when considering species diversity within Oregon's borders. They can be very significant when protecting the genetic diversity of a taxon. ORBIC regards extreme rarity as a significant threat and has included species which are very rare in Oregon but secure elsewhere on this list.
List 3 contains species for which more information is needed before status can be determined, but for which there is reason to believe they may be threatened or endangered in Oregon or throughout their range. Many taxa on this list may eventually be determined to belong on List 1 or List 2, so it is important that they be looked for.
List 4 contains taxa which are of conservation concern but currently do not meet the criteria for begin considered threatened or endangered. This includes taxa which are very rare but are currently secure, as well as taxa which are declining in numbers or habitat but are still too abundant to be proposed as threatened or endangered. While these taxa currently may not need the same active management attention as threatened or endangered taxa, they do require continued monitoring.
List 4 includes species that may be of conservation concern from a global or state perspective.
Ranking Documentation
Tables of Results:
Vascular Plants
Fungi and Lichen
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
Introduction to Natural Heritage Ranks
One of the Oregon Biodiversity Information Center's tasks is to rank rare species in Oregon according to how at risk they are in Oregon. For endemic species and those for which we have ranking responsibility, we also assess species' status on a global scale. The conservation status ranks for the species on the linked pages below were assigned following NatureServe's protocol on species assessment. An explanation of the methodology, a description of the factors being assessed, and the spreadsheet calculator tool can be viewed and downloaded from NatureServe's Rank Calculator website. The calculator version used for these evaluations is noted in the footer of the document; if there is no footer the version was 2.0. For a brief description of the meaning of the rank codes, see our Rare Species Ranking Definitions (section above).
Ranks are assigned as a couplet, one for the global level and one for the state/Oregon level. If only the global ranking form is available, then the species is an Oregon endemic and the state rank and information will be the same. If only the state ranking form is available, then the species occurs outside of Oregon as well and Oregon does not have global ranking authority. The global ranks for these species therefore reflect the published values in the current Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species of Oregon list, and global ranking authority rests with another state or with NatureServe.
Many of the vascular plant species have also been assessed for vulnerability to climate change using NatureServe's Climate Change Vulnerability Index calculator. Where it has been calculated, the score from the CCVI is listed in the "Climate Vulnerability" column of the table. This rank informs the "threats" section of the Element Rank Calculator, and provides a measure of how vulnerable a species is to negative impacts from predicted climate change. See NatureServe's Climate Change Vulnerability Index page for more information or to download a copy of the calculator.
The element ranks assigned to the species under the Survey and Manage Assessment project (completed in 2004) followed a similar protocol as the NatureServe Element Ranking methodology but the calculator tool had not been developed at that time. The ranks in the tables linked above supercede all other previous ranks for a given species.
As time allows more species will have their ranks documented and published in these tables, please check back periodically for updates.
Vascular Plant Ranks
Documentation forms for Oregon state and global ranks for vascular plants are provided in the table below. For detailed information on the ranking process, see Ranking Documentation. For a brief description of the meaning of the rank codes, see Rare Species Ranking Definitions. Species for which only a G-rank form is available are Oregon endemics, thus the S-rank information for these species is the same as the G-rank.
Tables of Results: Vascular Plants | Fungi | Vertebrates | Invertebrates
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Climate Vulnerability | Rank Date | Climate Vulnerability Date |
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| Abronia umbellata ssp. breviflora | Pink sandverbena | G4G5T2 | S1 | High | 2016-08-17 | |
| Achnatherum hendersonii | Henderson ricegrass | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-17 | |
| Achnatherum wallowaense | Wallowa ricegrass | G2G3 | S2S3 | Moderate | 2016-08-17 | |
| Agrostis howellii | Howell's bentgrass | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-07-08 | |
| Aliciella triodon | Coyote gilia | G5 | S2 | 2016-04-20 | ||
| Allium dictuon | Blue Mt. onion | G2 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Amsinckia carinata | Malheur Valley fiddleneck | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Arabis koehleri var. koehleri | Koehler's rockcress | G3T1Q | S1 | High | 2016-08-15 | |
| Arabis macdonaldiana | Red Mountain rockcress | G2 | S1 | Presumed Stable | 2012-12-12 | 2012-12-21 |
| Arabis modesta | Rogue Canyon rockcress | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2016-08-15 | |
| Arctostaphylos hispidula | Gasquet manzanita | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-15 | |
| Artemisia pycnocephala | Coastal sagewort | G4G5 | S1 | Extreme | 2020-01-07 | |
| Astragalus applegatei | Applegate's milk-vetch | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-11-16 | 2012-11-26 |
| Astragalus californicus | California milk-vetch | G3 | S1 | Moderate | 2016-08-10 | |
| Astragalus diaphanus var. diurnus | South Fork John Day milk-vetch | G4T2Q | S2 | High | 2020-05-05 | |
| Astragalus lemmonii | Lemmon's milk-vetch | G2 | S1 | High | 2013-04-29 | 2013-04-29 |
| Astragalus misellus var. misellus | Pauper milk-vetch | G3T2? | S2 | Moderate | 2020-05-05 | |
| Astragalus mulfordiae | Mulford's milk-vetch | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2013-04-22 | 2015-05-27 |
| Astragalus peckii | Peck's milk-vetch | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-05-28 | 2016-08-16 |
| Astragalus tegetarioides | Bastard kentrophyta | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-05-31 | 2016-08-17 |
| Astragalus tyghensis | Tygh Valley milkvetch | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Bensoniella oregana | Bensonia | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-06-18 | 2016-08-15 |
| Boechera atrorubens | Sickle-pod rockcress | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Boechera hastatula | Hells Canyon rockcress | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Boechera horizontalis | Crater Lake rockcress | G1 | S1 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Boechera paddoensis | Mt. Adams rockcress | G1 | S1 | 2016-04-21 | ||
| Botrychium ascendens | Upward-lobed moonwort | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Botrychium crenulatum | Crenulate moonwort | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Botrychium lineare | Slender moonwort | G2G3 | S1 | High | 2017-06-01 | |
| Botrychium montanum | Mountain grape-fern | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Botrychium paradoxum | Peculiar moonwort | G3G4 | S1 | Moderate | 2013-01-29 | 2013-01-29 |
| Botrychium pedunculosum | Stalked moonwort | G2G3 | S1 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Botrychium pumicola | Pumice grape-fern | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-06-21 | 2017-06-01 |
| Brodiaea terrestris | Dwarf brodiaea | G4G5 | S2 | Extreme | 2020-05-06 | |
| Calamagrostis breweri | Brewer's reedgrass | G3 | S2 | Extreme | 2017-06-01 | |
| Calamagrostis tweedyi | Tweedy's reedgrass | G3 | S1 | 2016-04-21 | ||
| California macrophylla | Large-leaved filaree | G3 | S1 | Moderate | 2020-01-31 | |
| Calochortus coxii | Cox's mariposa-lily | G1 | S1 | Moderate | 2012-11-16 | 2012-11-16 |
| Calochortus greenei | Greene's mariposa-lily | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-06-23 | 2017-06-01 |
| Calochortus howellii | Howell's mariposa-lily | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-06-25 | 2017-06-01 |
| Calochortus longebarbatus var. peckii | Peck's mariposa-lily | G4T3 | S3 | Extreme | 2010-06-28 | 2019-08-14 |
| Calochortus nitidus | Broad fruit mariposa lily | G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Calochortus persistens | Siskiyou mariposa-lily | G2 | S1 | Presumed Stable | 2013-03-29 | 2013-03-29 |
| Calochortus umpquaensis | Umpqua mariposa lily | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Camassia howellii | Howell's camas | G2 | S2 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Camissonia parvula | Lewis' river suncup | G5 | S2 | 2016-06-14 | ||
| Cardamine pattersonii | Saddle Mt. bittercress | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Carex concinna | Low northern sedge | G5 | S1 | 2012-09-12 | ||
| Carex davyi | Dry-spike sedge | G2 | S1 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Carex idahoa | Idaho Sedge | G2G3 | S1 | Extreme | 2017-06-01 | |
| Carex klamathensis | Klamath sedge | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Carex tahoensis | Tahoe sedge | G5 | S1S2 | High | 2016-05-11 | 2016-05-11 |
| Carex tiogana | Tioga pass sedge | G1 | S1 | Extreme | 2012-11-15 | 2012-11-15 |
| Carex zikae | Short-stemmed sedge | G5 | S2 | Moderate | 2020-05-06 | |
| Castilleja chambersii | Chambers' paintbrush | G1 | S1 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Castilleja chlorotica | Green-tinged paintbrush | G3? | S3? | Moderate | 2010-08-01 | 2017-06-01 |
| Castilleja fraterna | Fraternal paintbrush | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Castilleja levisecta | Golden paintbrush | G1 | SX | 2012-11-15 | ||
| Castilleja mendocinensis | Mendocino coast paintbrush | G2 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Castilleja oresbia | Pale Wallowa paintbrush | G3 | S2S3 | Presumed Stable | 2013-04-10 | 2013-04-02 |
| Castilleja rubida | Purple alpine paintbrush | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Castilleja schizotricha | Split-hair paintbrush | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Chaenactis suffrutescens | Shasta pincushion | G3 | S1 | 2016-04-20 | ||
| Chlorocrambe hastata | Spearhead | G3? | S1 | High | 2020-01-30 | |
| Chloropyron maritimus ssp. palustris | Pt. Reyes bird's-beak | G4T2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Cimicifuga elata var. alpestris | Mountain tall bugbane | G4T4 | S4 | 2010-03-26 | ||
| Collomia mazama | Mt. Mazama collomia | G4 | S4 | High | 2010-06-20 | |
| Collomia renacta | Barren valley collomia | G1 | S1 | Presumed Stable | 2012-11-09 | 2012-11-09 |
| Corydalis aquae-gelidae | Cold-water corydalis | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-07-10 | 2016-08-17 |
| Cypripedium fasciculatum | Clustered lady's-slipper | G4 | S2 | 2010-06-28 | ||
| Cryptantha grandiflora | Clearwater cryptantha | G3? | S1S2 | Moderate | 2019-08-12 | 2019-08-13 |
| Cryptantha leiocarpa | Seaside cryptantha | G3G4 | S1 | Extreme | 2020-05-06 | |
| Delphinium leucophaeum | White rock larkspur | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Delphinium oreganum | Willamette Valley larkspur | G3Q | S1 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Delphinium pavonaceum | Peacock larkspur | G1Q | S1 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Dicentra pauciflora | Few-flowered bleedingheart | G3? | S1 | Moderate | 2020-01-23 | |
| Dodecatheon austrofrigidum | Frigid shootingstar | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-0-01 | |
| Enemion occidentale | Western false rue-anemone | G3? | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-01-23 | |
| Epilobium oreganum | Oregon willow-herb | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2013-03-25 | 2013-03-25 |
| Epilobium siskiyouense | Siskiyou willow-herb | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2020-01-22 | |
| Eremothera pygmaea | Dwarf evening-primrose | G3 | S1 | High | 2020-01-22 | |
| Ericameria arborescens | Golden fleece | G4 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-05-06 | |
| Erigeron cevinus | Siskiyou daisy | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-01-21 | |
| Erigeron davisii | Englemann's daisy | G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Erigeron howellii | Howell's daisy | G2 | S2 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Erigeron latus | Broad fleabane | G3 | S1? | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Erigeron oreganus | Oregon daisy | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-07-02 | 2016-08-01 |
| Erigeron stansellii | Stansell's daisy | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-10-04 | 2020-05-06 |
| Eriogonum calcareum | G5 | S2S3 | 2012-10-04 | |||
| Eriogonum chrysops | Golden buckwheat | G2 | S2 | Less vulnerable | 2012-11-19 | 2015-05-27 |
| Eriogonum crosbyae var. crosbyae | Crosby's buckwheat | G3T3 | S2 | High | 2020-01-09 | |
| Eriogonum crosbyae var. mystrium | Pueblo Mountains buckwheat | G2 | S2 | 2012-10-10 | ||
| Eriogonum cusickii | Cusick's eriogonum | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-09 | |
| Eriogonum prociduum | Prostrate buckwheat | G2? | S1? | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Eriogonum villosissimum | Acker Rock wild buckwheat | G1 | S1 | Moderate | 2012-01-16 | 2016-08-01 |
| Eriophorum chamissonis | Russet cotton-grass | G5 | S1 | High | 2020-05-06 | |
| Erysimum concinnum | Pacific wallflower | G3 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Erythranthe hymenophylla | Membrane-leaved monkeyflower | G2 | S1S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-09 | |
| Erythranthe inflatula | Disappearing monkeyflower | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-01-14 | |
| Erythronium elegans | Coast Range fawn-lily | G2 | S2 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Erythronium howellii | Howell's adder's-tongue | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-07-07 | 2020-01-14 |
| Eucephalus gormanii | Gorman's aster | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-07-09 | 2020-01-07 |
| Eucephalus vialis | Wayside aster | G3 | S3 | Less Vulnerable | 2010-07-09 | 2020-01-13 |
| Filipendula occidentalis | Queen-of-the-forest | G2 | S2 | Less vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Frasera umpquaensis | Umpqua swertia | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2009-10-12 | 2016-08-19 |
| Fritillaria gentneri | Gentner's fritillaria | G1 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2012-11-08 | 2015-05-27 |
| Gentiana plurisetosa | Bristly gentian | G2G3 | S1 | High | 2020-01-13 | |
| Gentiana setigera | Waldo gentian | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Gilia millefoliata | Seaside gilia | G2 | S1 | High | 2013-03-06 | 2013-03-11 |
| Gratiola heterosepala | Boggs Lake hedge-hyssop | G2 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Hackelia bella | Beautiful stickseed | G3? | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Hackelia cronquistii | Cronquist's stickseed | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-07-12 | 2016-08-19 |
| Hackelia ophiobia | Three forks stickseed | G3 | S1 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Hastingsia bracteosa ssp. atropurpurea | Purple flowered rush lily | G2T2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Hastingsia bracteosa ssp. bracteosa | Large-flowered rush lily | G2T2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Helianthus bolanderi | Bolander's sunflower | G4 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-05-13 | 2016-05-13 |
| Hesperocyparis bakeri | Baker's cypress | G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Horkelia hendersonii | Henderson's horkelia | G1G2 | S1S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Huperzia miyoshiana | Pacific fir-moss | G4 | S1 | Moderate | 2016-05-12 | 2016-05-12 |
| Iliamna latibracteata | California globe-mallow | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-02 | |
| Ivesia rhypara var. rhypara | Grimy ivesia | G2T2 | S1 | High | 2013-04-09 | 2015-05-27 |
| Ivesia rhypara var. shellyi | Shelly's ivesia | G1G2T1T2 | S1S2 | High | 2013-04-11 | 2013-04-11 |
| Juncus kelloggii | Kellogg's dwarf rush | G3? | S2? | Less Vulnerable | 2016-05-13 | 2016-05-13 |
| Kalmiopsis fragrans | North Umpqua kalmiopsis | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2012-11-01 | 2012-11-01 |
| Lasthenia ornduffii | Large-flowered goldfields | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Lathyrus holochlorus | Thin-leaved peavine | G2 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Lepidium davisii | Davis' peppergrass | G3 | S1 | High | 2017-06-01 | |
| Lilium occidentale | Western lily | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-10-16 | 2012-10-26 |
| Limnanthes pumila ssp. pumila | Dwarf wooly meadow-foam | G1 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Limonium californicum | Western marsh-rosemary | G4 | S1 | Extreme | 2019-08-14 | |
| Lomatium bentonitum | Bentonite biscuitroot | G1 | S1 | 2012-10-04 | ||
| Lomatium cookii | Cook's desert-parsley | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-10-22 | 2015-05-27 |
| Lomatium englemannii | Englemann's desert-parsley | G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-02 | |
| Lomatium erythrocarpum | Red-fruited lomatium | G1G2 | S1S2 | Extreme | 2012-09-20 | 2012-09-20 |
| Lomatium greenmanii | Greenman's lomatium | G1 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Lomatium ochocense | Ochoco desert-parsley | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2012-09-12 | 2012-09-12 |
| Lomatium pastorale | Meadow lomatium | G1G2 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Lomatium roseanum | Rose's lomatium | G2G3 | S1 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Lomatium suksdorfii | Suksdorf's desert parsley | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Luina serpentina | Colonial luina | G3 | S3 | Extreme | 2010-07-31 | 2016-08-19 |
| Lupinus lepidus var. ashlanensis | Mt. Ashland Lupine | G1T1 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Lupinus lepidus var. cusickii | Cusick's lupine | G1T1 | S1 | High | 2012-10-15 | 2012-10-15 |
| Lupinus sabinianus | Sabin's lupine | G4 | S4 | 2016-04-19 | ||
| Meconella oregana | White fairypoppy | G2G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Mentzelia mollis | Smooth mentzelia | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Mentzelia packardiae | Packard's mentzelia | G2Q | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Micranthes hitchcockiana | Saddle Mt. saxifrage | G1 | S1 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Mimulus hymenophyllus | Membrane-leaf monkeyflower | G2 | S1S2 | Extreme | 2012-08-24 | 2012-09-28 |
| Mimulus patulus | Stem-leaved monkeyflower | G3Q | S2S4 | High | 2013-04-08 | 2013-04-08 |
| Mirabilis macfarlanei | Macfarlane's four-o'clock | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2013-01-29 | 2013-01-29 |
| Monardella purpurea | Siskiyou monardella | G3Q | S3 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Myosurus sessilis | Sessile mousetail | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2016-08-10 | |
| Navarretia willamettensis | Willamette navarretia | G1 | S1 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Oenothera wolfii | Wolf's evening-primrose | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-08-21 | 2012-09-10 |
| Penstemon barrettiae | Barrett's penstemon | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-11 | |
| Penstemon deustus var. variabilis | Hot-rock penstemon | G5T1T2 | S1S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-05-12 | |
| Penstemon glaucinus | Blue-leaved penstemon | G3 | S3 | Less Vulnerable | 2010-07-14 | 2017-06-01 |
| Penstemon peckii | Peck's penstemon | G3 | S3 | Less Vulnerable | 2010-07-14 | 2016-08-19 |
| Penstemon perpulcher | Beautiful penstemon | G3? | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2010-07-16 | 2017-06-01 |
| Perideridia erythrorhiza | Red-root yapah | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2012-09-06 | 2012-09-06 |
| Phacelia argentea | Silvery phacelia | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2016-08-01 | |
| Phacelia inundata | Playa phacelia | G2 | S2 | High | 2013-02-28 | 2015-05-27 |
| Phacelia leonis | Siskiyou phacelia | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2013-02-28 | 2013-02-25 |
| Phacelia minutissima | Dwaft phacelia | G3 | S1 | High | 2017-06-01 | |
| Phemeranthus spinescens | Spiny flame-flower | G4 | S2 | Moderate | 2020-05-12 | |
| Pilularia americana | American pillwort | G5 | S2 | Moderate | 2020-05-12 | |
| Plagiobothrys hirtus | Rough popcorn flower | G1 | S1 | Extreme | 2012-09-04 | 2012-09-04 |
| Plagiobothrys salsus | Desert allocarya | G2G3 | S1 | High | 2016-08-19 | |
| Pleuropogon oregonus | Oregon semaphore grass | G1 | S1 | Extreme | 2012-08-22 | 2012-08-22 |
| Pogogyne floribunda | Profuse-flowered mesa mint | G4 | S1 | High | 2020-05-12 | |
| Prosartes parvifolia | Siskiyou fairy bells | G2? | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Pyrrocoma radiata | Snake River goldenweed | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-07-26 | 2017-06-01 |
| Pyrrocoma scaberula | Rough pyrrocoma | G3 | S3 | High | 2010-07-20 | 2016-08-11 |
| Ranunculus austrooreganus | Southern Oregon buttercup | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2016-08-01 | |
| Ranunculus triternatus | Obscure Buttercup | G2 | S1 | Presumed Stable | 2012-12-07 | 2012-12-07 |
| Romanzoffia thompsonii | Thompson mistmaiden | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-07-29 | 2020-01-09 |
| Rorippa columbiae | Columbia Cress | G3 | S3 | Moderate | 2010-08-08 | 2017-06-01 |
| Rubus bartonianus | Bartonberry | G2 | S2 | High | 2012-12-05 | 2012-12-05 |
| Saxifragopsis fragarioides | Strawberry saxifrage | G3? | S1 | Moderate | 2020-01-09 | |
| Schoenoplectus subterminalis | Water clubrush | G5 | S2 | Moderate | 2020-05-12 | |
| Scirpus pendulus | Drooping bulrush | G5 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2020-05-12 | |
| Sedum moranii | Rogue River Stonecrop | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2012-11-20 | 2012-08-21 |
| Senecio ertterae | Ertter's senecio | G2 | S2 | Extreme | 2020-01-30 | |
| Sericocarpus rigidus | White-topped aster | G3 | S2 | Moderate | 2017-06-01 | |
| Sidalcea hendersonii | Henderson's sidalcea | G3 | S1 | Extreme | 2017-06-01 | |
| Sidalcea hickmanii ssp. petraea | Neil Rock sidalcea | G3 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-01 | |
| Sidalcea hirtipes | Bristly-stemmed Sidalcea | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-08 | |
| Silene spaldingii | Spalding's catchfly | G2 | S2 | High | 2013-02-20 | 2013-02-21 |
| Sisyrinchium hitchcockii | Hitchcock's blue-eyed grass | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2013-02-19 | 2013-02-19 |
| Sisyrinchium sarmentosum | Pale blue-eyed grass | G1 | S1 | Moderate | 2012-08-23 | 2015-05-27 |
| Sophora leachiana | Western Necklace | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2016-08-02 | |
| Stanleya confertiflora | Biennial stanleya | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2012-10-03 | 2012-08-24 |
| Stephanomeria malheurensis | Malheur wire-lettuce | G1 | S1 | High | 2012-08-27 | 2012-08-27 |
| Streptanthus howellii | Howell's streptanthus | G2 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2016-08-01 | |
| Sullivantia oregana | Oregon sullivantia | G2 | S2 | High | 2016-08-01 | |
| Synthyris schizantha | Fringed kittentail | G4 | SU | Moderate | 2020-05-12 | |
| Tauschia howellii | Howell's tauschia | G2 | S1 | Moderate | 2014-07-23 | 2014-07-23 |
| Thelypodium brachycarpum | Short-podded thelypody | G3 | S2 | Less Vulnerable | 2017-06-02 | |
| Thelypodium eucosmum | Arrow-leaf thelypody | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2015-05-27 | |
| Thelypodium howellii ssp. howellii | Howell's thelypody | G2T2 | S1 | Extreme | 2016-08-02 | |
| Thelypodium howellii ssp. spectabilis | Howell's spectacular thelypody | G2 | T1S1 | High | 2013-02-14 | 2013-02-19 |
| Trifolium douglasii | Douglas's clover | G2 | S2 | Moderate | 2013-02-11 | 2013-02-11 |
| Trifolium leibergii | Leiberg's clover | G2 | S2 | Presumed Stable | 2013-01-30 | 2013-01-30 |
| Trifolium owyheense | Owyhee clover | G2 | S2S3 | High | 2022-04-08 | 2015-05-27 |
| Utricularia gibba | Humped bladderwort | G5 | S1 | Less Vulnerable | 2019-08-14 | |
| Utricularia minor | Lesser bladderwort | G5 | S4 | 2013-09-16 |
Fungi Ranks
Documentation forms for state and global ranks for fungi are provided in the table below. Where taxa have recently changed scientific names, the previously used name is noted in the Previous Name column. For detailed information on the ranking process, see Ranking Documentation. For a brief description of the meaning of the rank codes, see Rare Species Ranking Definitions. Fields with an en dash ( – ) denotes that the species has not been documented in that state, at least at the time of the assessment. Results from the 2016-2018 fungi ranking effort can be downloaded in an Excel spreadsheet.
Tables of Results: Vascular Plants | Fungi | Vertebrates | Invertebrates
| Scientific Name | Previous Name | Global Rank |
Oregon State Rank |
Washington State Rank |
California State Rank |
Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albatrellopsis flettii | G4 | S4 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Albatrellus avellaneus | G3 | S1S2 | S2 | S1 | 2018-05-07 | |
| Albatrellus ellisii | G3Q | S3 | S2 | S2S3 | 2018-12-12 | |
| Albatrellus skamanius | GU | S1 | 2009-09-21 | |||
| Aleurodiscus farlowii | G3? | S1? | S1? | 2017-03-09 | ||
| Alpova olivaceotinctus | G2 | S1 | – | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Amanita armillariiformis | G3 | S2 | 2010-06-01 | |||
| Amogaster viridigleba | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-01 | |||
| Arcangeliella crassa | G3 | S2 | 2010-06-01 | |||
| Arcangeliella lactarioides | G3 | S1 | 2010-06-01 | |||
| Arrhenia lobata | G5 | S1 | 2010-06-03 | |||
| Asterophora lycoperdoides | G4 | S2S3 | S2S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Asterophora parasitica | G3G4 | S2 | – | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Baeospora myriadophylla | G3 | S1 | S3 | S1S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Balsamia alba | G3 | S2 | 2010-06-03 | |||
| Balsamia nigrans | Balsamia nigrens | G2G3 | S2 | – | S2 | 2017-03-09 |
| Balsamia platyspora | G3 | S1 | 2010-06-04 | |||
| Boletus subalpinus | Gastroboletus subalpinus | G4 | S3S4 | S1 | S3? | 2018-02-28 |
| Bondarzewia mesenterica | G4Q | S4 | S3S4 | S3 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Bridgeoporus nobilissimus | G2G3 | S2 | S2 | S1 | 2018-12-05 | |
| Cantharellus subalbidus | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2018-12-06 | |
| Catathelasma ventricosum | G4 | S2 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cazia flexiascus | G2 | S1 | 2010-06-04 | |||
| Chalciporus piperatus | Boletus piperatus | G4 | S3S4 | S4 | S3S4 | 2017-03-09 |
| Chamonixia caespitosa | G3? | S2 | S2 | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Chloroscypha flavida | Gelatinodiscus flavidus | G3 | S3 | S3 | S1 | 2018-12-06 |
| Choiromyces alveolatus | G2G3 | S2 | S1 | S2 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Choiromyces venosus | G4? | S1 | – | S1 | 2017-08-08 | |
| Chroogomphus loculatus | G2Q | S2 | – | – | 2017-08-08 | |
| Chrysomphalina grossula | G3 | S2 | S2 | S1 | 2017-08-08 | |
| Clavariadelphus ligula | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Clavariadelphus occidentalis | G4 | S3 | S4 | S3 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Clavariadelphus sachalinensis | G4 | S3 | S2 | S2 | 2014-04-22 | |
| Clavariadelphus subfastigiatus | G3 | S2 | S1 | S1 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Clavariadelphus truncatus | G5 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2018-12-12 | |
| Clavulina castaneipes var. lignicola | G3 | S2 | S2 | – | 2017-04-22 | |
| Clitocybe senilis | G4Q | S1 | S2 | S1 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Clitocybe subditopoda | G3 | S1 | S3 | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Collybia bakerensis | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Conocybe subnuda | G4? | S1 | 2010-06-04 | |||
| Cortinarius barlowensis | G3 | S2 | S3 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cortinarius boulderensis | G3 | S2 | S3 | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cortinarius cyanites | G3Q | S1S2 | S3 | S2 | 2017-08-18 | |
| Cortinarius depauperatus | G3? | S1 | S1 | S1 | 2017-08-25 | |
| Cortinarius magnivelatus | G3 | S3 | – | S2 | 2017-01-11 | |
| Cortinarius olympianus | G3 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2017-01-12 | |
| Cortinarius pavelekii | Thaxterogaster pavelekii | G2 | S2 | S1 | S1 | 2017-01-16 |
| Cortinarius rainierensis | Cortinarius speciosissimus | G3G4 | – | S1 | S1? | 2017-03-09 |
| Cortinarius tabdularis | G2G3 | – | S1 | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cortinarius umidicola | G2? | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |||
| Cortinarius valgus | G3 | S1 | S2 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cortinarius variipes | G3 | S1 | S3 | 2017-03-09 | ||
| Cortinarius verrucisporus | G3 | S2 | – | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Cortinarius wiebeae | G1 | S1 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Craterellus tubaeformis | G4G5 | S3S4 | S3S4 | S3 | 2016-12-10 | |
| Cystangium lymanense | Macowanites lymanensis | G1 | – | S1 | – | 2016-11-30 |
| Dendrocollybia racemosa | Collybia racemosa | G3G4 | S2 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 |
| Dermocybe humboldtensis | G1G2 | SX | – | S1 | 2018-08-27 | |
| Destuntzia fusca | G2G3 | S1 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | ||
| Destuntzia rubra | G2 | SH | S2 | 2017-03-09 | ||
| Dichostereum boreale | G1 | – | S1 | – | 2017-01-30 | |
| Elaphomyces anthracinus | G3 | S1 | – | – | 2017-01-30 | |
| Elaphomyces decipiens | G3 | S3 | 2010-06-04 | |||
| Elaphomyces subviscidus | G2 | S1 | – | – | 2017-01-19 | |
| Endogone acrogena | G2 | – | S2 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Endogone oregonensis | G2 | S2 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Entocybe nitida | G3G4 | S1 | S2 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Entocybe speciosa | Rhodocybe speciosa | G3 | S1 | S2 | – | 2017-01-11 |
| Fayodia bisphaerigera | G3Q | S1 | S3 | S2 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Fevansia aurantiaca | G2 | S2 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Galerina atkinsoniana | G4G5 | S4 | S4 | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Galerina cerina | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Galerina fuscobrunnea | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-09 | |||
| Galerina heterocystis | G4Q | S2 | S3 | S2S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Galerina sphagnicola | G3G4 | SU | SU | – | 2019-05-22 | |
| Gastroboletus imbellus | G1 | S1 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Gastroboletus ruber | G3G4 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2018-02-28 | |
| Gastroboletus turbinatus | G4 | S4 | S3S4 | S4 | 2018-02-28 | |
| Gastroboletus vividus | G3 | S3 | – | S3 | 2017-01-09 | |
| Gastrosuillus amaranthi | GH | – | – | SH | 2018-02-28 | |
| Gautieria magnicellaris | G3G4 | S1 | – | S1 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Gautieria otthii | G3Q | S1 | – | S1 | 2018-02-28 | |
| Genea compacta | G2 | S1 | 2010-10-04 | |||
| Glomus pubescens | G3 | S1 | 2010-10-06 | |||
| Glomus radiatum | G2G4 | S1? | S1? | S1? | 2018-03-01 | |
| Gomphus clavatus | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2017-01-20 | |
| Guepinia helvelloides | Tremiscus helvelloides | G4 | S3S4 | S3S4 | S3S4 | 2018-06-15 |
| Gymnomyces fragrans | Martellia fragrans | G2 | S1 | – | S1 | 2016-11-30 |
| Gymnomyces monosporus | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-06 | |||
| Gymnomyces nondistincta | G1 | S1 | – | S1 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Gymnopilus punctifolius | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2016-11-21 | |
| Gyromitra californica | Pseudorhizina californica | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2017-03-09 |
| Hebeloma occidentale | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-06 | |||
| Hebeloma olympianum | G3 | – | S3 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Hebeloma oregonense | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-11 | |||
| Hebeloma parcivelum | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-10 | |||
| Hebeloma pungens | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-10 | |||
| Helvella crassitunicata | G3 | S3 | S3 | – | 2016-11-23 | |
| Helvella elastica | G5 | S2 | S3 | S1S2 | 2016-11-15 | |
| Hemimycena pseudocrispula | G3 | S1 | 2010-10-10 | |||
| Hydnotrya inordinata | G3 | S3 | – | S1 | 2016-11-25 | |
| Hydnotrya subnix | G1 | – | S1 | – | 2016-11-25 | |
| Hydropus marginellus | G3G4 | S2 | S3 | S2 | 2016-11-25 | |
| Hygrophorus albicarneus | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-11 | |||
| Hygrophorus albiflavus | G1 | S1 | 2010-10-11 | |||
| Hygrophorus caeruleus | G3 | S2S3 | S1S2 | S2 | 2016-11-28 | |
| Hygrophorus karstenii | G3Q | – | S3? | – | 2016-11-28 | |
| Hygrophorus vernalis | G1G2 | – | S1 | S1 | 2016-11-28 | |
| Hypomyces luteovirens | G4 | S2 | S2 | S1 | 2018-04-17 | |
| Lactarius crassus | Arcangeliella crassa | G3 | S2S3 | – | S2S3 | 2017-03-09 |
| Lactarius lactarioides | Arcangeliella lactarioides | G2G3 | S2? | – | S2? | 2017-03-09 |
| Lactarius silviae | Arcangeliella camphorata | G2G3 | S2S3 | S1S2 | – | 2017-03-09 |
| Leptonia violaceonigra | G2 | S1 | 2010-08-25 | |||
| Leucogaster citrinus | G4 | S4 | S4 | S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Leucogaster microsporus | G2G3 | S2 | S1 | S2 | 2018-11-29 | |
| Macowanites chlorinosmus | G3 | S3 | S1 | S1 | 2016-11-29 | |
| Macowanites mollis | G3 | S1 | S2 | – | 2016-11-30 | |
| Martellia medlockii | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-14 | |||
| Muscinupta laevis | Cyphellostereum laeve | G3? | S1 | S2 | – | 2017-01-10 |
| Mycena gaultheri | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-14 | |||
| Mycena hudsoniana | G2G3 | S1 | S2 | S2 | 2018-11-29 | |
| Mycena overholtsii | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2S3 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Mycena quiniaultensis | Mycena quinaultensis | G3 | S1S2 | S2S3 | S2S3 | 2018-05-18 |
| Mycena tenax | G4 | S2 | S2S3 | S3 | 2016-12-05 | |
| Mycetinis applanatipes | G2 | S1 | – | S2 | 2016-11-30 | |
| Mythicomyces corneipes | G2G3 | S1S2 | S2S3 | – | 2016-12-15 | |
| Neoalbatrellus caeruleoporus | Albatrellus caeruleoporus | G2G3Q | S2 | S1 | S1 | 2017-03-09 |
| Neolentinus adhaerens | G3 | S1 | S2 | – | 2016-12-15 | |
| Neolentinus kauffmanii | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2S3 | 2016-12-08 | |
| Nolanea verna var. isodiametrica | T3 | S1 | 2010-06-15 | |||
| Octaviania cyanescens | G1 | S1 | S1 | – | 2016-12-09 | |
| Octaviania macrospora | GH | SH | – | – | 2018-08-24 | |
| Otidea leporina | G5 | S3S4 | S3 | S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Otidea smithii | G3 | S2 | S1 | S2 | 2016-12-12 | |
| Omphalina isabellina | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-15 | |||
| Pachycudonia monticola | Cudonia monticola | G3G4 | S3 | S2 | S1 | 2018-02-08 |
| Phaeoclavulina abietina | Ramaria abietina | G4 | S2 | S2 | S2S3 | 2017-04-22 |
| Phaeocollybia attenuata | G3Q | S3 | S3 | S2S3 | 2016-12-12 | |
| Phaeocollybia californica | G3 | S2? | – | S3 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Phaeocollybia dissiliens | G2 | S2 | – | S1 | 2018-05-21 | |
| Phaeocollybia fallax | G4Q | S3S4 | S2S3 | S2S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia gregaria | G1G2Q | S1S2 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia kauffmanii | G3G4 | S3 | S3 | S2S3 | 2018-05-21 | |
| Phaeocollybia lilacifolia | G2 | S1S2 | S1 | SH | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia olivacea | G3Q | S2S3 | S1 | S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia oregonensis | G2 | S2 | S1 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia piceae | G3 | S3? | S2 | S2 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Phaeocollybia pseudofestiva | G2G3Q | S2S3 | S2 | S2S3 | 2018-05-22 | |
| Phaeocollybia scatesiae | G3 | S3 | S2? | S2 | 2019-12-10 | |
| Phaeocollybia sipei | G3 | S3 | S1 | S1? | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phaeocollybia spadicea | G3G4 | S3S4 | S2 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Phellodon atratus | G4 | S3? | S3 | S3 | 2018-05-23 | |
| Pholiota nubigena | Nivatogastrium nubigenum | G4 | S3 | SH | S3 | 2018-05-18 |
| Polyozellus multiplex | G4 | S3 | S3 | S1 | 2016-12-31 | |
| Pseudaleuria quinaultiana | G2 | S2 | S2 | – | 2017-04-22 | |
| Radiigera bushnellii | G1 | S1 | 2010-06-16 | |||
| Ramaria amyloidea | G3 | S3 | S2 | S1 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Ramaria araiospora | G4 | S4 | S3 | S2 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria aurantiisiccescens | G3 | S2S3 | S2 | S1 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Ramaria botrytis var. aurantiiramosa | GUT2 | S1 | S1 | S1 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria celerivirescens | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria conjunctipes var. sparsiramosa | GUT3 | S3 | S2 | S2 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria coulterae | G3 | S2S3 | – | S2 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Ramaria cyaneigranosa | G4 | S3 | S3 | S1S2 | 2018-12-10 | |
| Ramaria gelatiniaurantia | G3 | S2 | S2S3 | S2 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria gracilis | G3 | S1 | S1? | S1? | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria hilaris var. olympiana | GUT1 | S1 | S1 | – | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria largentii | G3 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria lorithamnus | G3Q | S1 | S1 | – | 2018-06-04 | |
| Ramaria maculatipes | G3 | S3 | S2 | S2 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria rainierensis | G2 | S1 | S1 | S1 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria rubella f. blanda | Ramaria rubella var. blanda | GUT3? | S2? | S2? | – | 2018-06-05 |
| Ramaria rubribrunnescens | G3 | S2 | S2S3 | S1 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Ramaria rubrievanescens | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria rubripermanens | G4 | S4 | S3 | S2 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria spinulosa var. diminutiva | GUT2 | SNA | S1 | S1 | 2018-08-03 | |
| Ramaria stricta var. concolor | Ramaria concolor f. marrii | GUT1 | S1 | S1 | S1 | 2018-07-17 |
| Ramaria stuntzii | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2S3 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Ramaria suecica | G4 | S2 | S1S2 | S1 | 2018-06-07 | |
| Ramaria thiersii | G3 | S2 | – | 2018-06-07 | ||
| Ramaria tsugina | Ramaria concolor f. tsugina | G3 | S2 | S1 | S1 | 2018-07-17 |
| Ramaria verlotensis | G1G2 | – | S1 | S1 | 2017-04-22 | |
| Rhizopogon abietis | G3 | S3 | – | S1 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Rhizopogon alexsmithii | Alpova alexsmithii | G2 | S2 | S1 | S1 | 2017-03-09 |
| Rhizopogon atroviolaceus | G3 | S3 | – | S1 | 2017-01-10 | |
| Rhizopogon bacillisporus | G4 | S3 | 2010-08-06 | |||
| Rhizopogon brunneiniger | G3 | S2 | – | S2 | 2010-08-06 | |
| Rhizopogon chamaleontinus | G1 | S1 | – | – | 2017-01-10 | |
| Rhizopogon clavitisporus | G3 | S3 | 2010-08-09 | |||
| Rhizopogon ellipsosporus | G2 | S2 | – | S1 | 2018-12-11 | |
| Rhizopogon evadens var. subalpinus | GUT3 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Rhizopogon exiguus | G3 | S2 | S1 | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Rhizopogon flavofibrillosus | G3 | S3 | – | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Rhizopogon inquinatus | G2 | S1 | – | – | 2017-01-10 | |
| Rhizopogon rogersii | G3 | S3 | 2010-08-10 | |||
| Rhizopogon semireticulatus | G3 | S3 | 2010-08-11 | |||
| Rhizopogon semitectus | G2 | S1 | 2010-08-11 | |||
| Rhizopogon subcinnamomeus | G2 | S1 | 2010-08-11 | |||
| Rhizopogon subclavitisporus | G2 | S2 | 2010-08-12 | |||
| Rhizopogon subpurpurascens | G3 | S2S3 | 2010-08-16 | |||
| Rhizopogon truncatus | G4 | S4 | S1 | S2 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Rhizopogon variabilisporus | G2 | S1 | 2010-08-16 | |||
| Rickenella swartzii | G4 | S2 | S2 | S1S2 | 2017-01-11 | |
| Rubroboletus haematinus | Boletus haematinus | G3 | S2 | S1 | S2 | 2017-03-09 |
| Rubroboletus pulcherrimus | G3 | S3 | S2 | S2 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Russula idahoensis | Cystangium idahoensis | G2 | S1 | – | – | 2017-03-09 |
| Russula mustelina | G3 | S1S2 | S1 | S2 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Russula subabietis | Gymnomyces abietis | G3G4 | S3S4 | S1S3 | S3S4 | 2018-03-01 |
| Sarcodon fuscoindicus | G3 | S2S3 | S3 | S2 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Sclerotinia veratri | G3G4 | S1 | 2010-08-17 | |||
| Sedecula pulvinata | G3 | S2 | S2 | S2 | 2018-06-12 | |
| Sowerbyella rhenana | G3 | S2S3 | S1S2 | S2S3 | 2017-03-09 | |
| Sparassis radicata | Sparassis crispa | G4 | S4 | S3S4 | S3 | 2018-06-15 |
| Spathularia flavida | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2018-12-17 | |
| Squamanita paradoxa | G3 | SH | 2010-08-17 | |||
| Stagnicola perplexa | G3 | S1 | S1 | – | 2017-01-16 | |
| Stephensia bynumii | G1 | S1 | 2010-08-17 | |||
| Stropharia albivelata | Pholiota albivelata | G3 | S2 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 |
| Suillus umbrinus | Gastrosuillus umbrinus | GH | – | – | SH | 2018-02-28 |
| Tolypocladium ophioglossoides | Cordyceps ophioglossoides | G4 | S2 | S3 | S1 | 2017-03-09 |
| Trichoderma alutaceum | Podostroma alutaceum | G3 | S1 | S2 | S1 | 2017-04-22 |
| Tricholoma venenatum | G3? | S2 | S1? | S1 | 2018-06-18 | |
| Tricholomopsis fulvescens | G2G3 | SX | S2 | S2 | 2018-12-13 | |
| Tuber asa | G2 | S2 | – | S1 | 2018-12-12 | |
| Tuber pacificum | G1 | S1 | – | – | 2017-03-09 | |
| Turbinellus floccosus | Gomphus bonarii | G4G5 | S4S5 | S4S5 | S4S5 | 2018-12-17 |
| Turbinellus kauffmanii | Gomphus kauffmanii | G4 | S3 | S3 | S2 | 2017-03-09 |
| Tylopilus porphyrosporus | G4 | S3 | S3 | S3 | 2017-01-18 | |
| Zelleromyces papyraceus | Octavianina papyracea | G1 | – | – | S1 | 2016-12-09 |
Vertebrate Animal Ranks
Documentation forms for Oregon state and global ranks for vertebrate animals are provided in the table below. For detailed information on the ranking process, see Ranking Documentation. For a brief description of the meaning of the rank codes, see Rare Species Ranking Definitions.
Tables of Results: Vascular Plants | Fungi | Vertebrates | Invertebrates
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entosphenus lethophagus | Pit-Klamath brook lamprey | G3G4 | S3 | 2016-07-11 |
| Entosphenus minimus | Miller Lake lamprey | G3 | S2 | 2013-01-03 |
| Entosphenus tridentatus | Pacific lamprey | G4 | S1S2 | 2016-07-11 |
| Lampetra pacifica | Pacific brook lamprey | GNR | S2? | 2023-01-17 |
| Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi | Westslope cutthroat trout | G4T4 | S2 | 2014-10-15 |
| Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdneri | Inland Columbia Basin redband trout | G5T4 | S2S3 | 2014-08-26 |
| Oncorhychus mykiss pop. 42 | Fort Rock redband trout | G5T3Q | S2 | 2015-04-02 |
| Oncorhychus mykiss pop. 44 | Chewaucan redband trout | G5T3Q | S3 | 2015-02-16 |
| Oregonichthys crameri | Oregon chub | G3 | S3 | 2013-07-01 |
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambystoma mavortium melanosticum | Blotched tiger salamander | G5T4 | S3? | 2019-01-18 |
| Anaxyrus boreas | Boreal toad | G4 | S4 | 2013-06-20 |
| Aneides ferreus | Clouded salamander | G3G4 | S3S4 | 2019-01-18 |
| Aneides flavipunctatus | Black salamander | G4 | S2 | 2013-05-13 |
| Batrachoseps attenuatus | California slender salamander | G5 | S3 | 2013-06-13 |
| Batrachoseps wrighti | Oregon slender salamander | G3 | S3 | 2010-02-21 |
| Dicamptodon copei | Cope's giant salamander | G3 | S2? | 2022-10-20 |
| Lithobates pipiens | Northern leopard frog | G5 | S1S2 | 2019-01-24 |
| Plethodon elongatus | Del Norte salamander | G4 | S3 | 2019-01-18 |
| Plethodon larselli | Larch Mountain salamander | G2G3 | S2? | 2022-11-01 |
| Rana cascadae | Cascades frog | G3G4 | S3 | 2022-11-01 |
| Rana pretiosa | Oregon spotted frog | G2 | S1 | 2016-04-01 |
| Rhyacotriton cascadae | Cascade torrent salamander | G3 | S2S3 | 2022-11-09 |
| Rhyacotriton kezeri | Columbia torrent salamander | G2G3 | S2S3 | 2022-11-09 |
| Rhyacotriton variegatus | Southern torrent salamander | G3? | S3? | 2022-11-09 |
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crotalus oreganus | Western rattlesnake | G5 | S5 | 2016-03-31 |
| Lampropeltis getula | Common kingsnake | G5 | S3 | 2010-04-21 |
| Lampropeltis zonata | California mountain kingsnake | G4G5 | S3S4 | 2010-06-17 |
| Masticophis taeniatus | Striped whipsnake | G5 | S3S4 | 2010-07-08 |
| Phrynosoma hernandesi | Short-horned lizard | G5 | S3 | 2013-07-25 |
| Sonora semiannualata | Ground snake | G5 | S3 | 2016-03-31 |
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accipiter cooperi | Cooper's hawk | G5 | S4 | 2012-09-27 |
| Accipiter gentilis | Northern goshawk | G5 | S3S4 | 2013-04-10 |
| Accipeter striatus | Sharp-shinned hawk | G5 | S4 | 2016-03-28 |
| Aechmophorus occidentalis | Western grebe | G5 | S4B | 2016-03-22 |
| Agelaius tricolor | Tricolored blackbird | G1G2 | S2B | 2019-02-12 |
| Anthus rubescens | American pipit | G5 | S4 | 2013-03-04 |
| Aquila chrysaetos | Golden eagle | G5 | S3 | 2013-04-11 |
| Amphispiza bilineata | Black-throated sparrow | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-12 |
| Artemisiospiza nevadensis | Sagebrush sparrow | G5 | S4B | 2016-03-23 |
| Asio flemmeus | Short-eared owl | G5 | S3 | 2013-04-12 |
| Asio otus | Long-eared owl | G5 | S3S4 | 2019-03-11 |
| Baeolophous inornatus | Oak titmouse | G4 | S3S4 | 2019-03-11 |
| Baeolophus ridgwayi | Juniper titmouse | G5 | S3 | 2012-03-14 |
| Brachyramphus marmoratus | Marbled murrelet | G3 | S2 | 2016-03-24 |
| Branta bernicla | Brant | G5 | S2N | 2016-04-06 |
| Branta canadensis occidentalis | Dusky Canada goose | G5T3 | S3N | 2016-04-05 |
| Branta hutchinsii leucopareia | Aleutian Canada goose | G5T3 | S3N | 2016-04-05 |
| Butorides viriscens | Green heron | G5 | S4 | 2012-03-14 |
| Centrocercus urophasianus | Greater sage-grouse | G3G4 | S2 | 2019-01-31 |
| Cerorhinca monocerata | Rhinoceros auklet | G5 | S2B | 2016-03-24 |
| Charadrius nivosus nivosus | Western snowy plover | G3T3 | S2 | 2013-04-30 |
| Circus cyaneus | Northern harrier | G5 | S3 | 2012-10-19 |
| Contopus cooperi | Olive-sided flycatcher | G4 | S3 | 2012-10-01 |
| Coturnicops noveboracensis | Yellow rail | G4 | S2B | 2016-03-15 |
| Cypseloides niger | Black swift | G4 | S2?B | 2016-03-16 |
| Dendragapus obscurus | Dusky grouse | G4 | S3 | 2012-10-05 |
| Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Bobolink | G5 | S2B | 2016-03-16 |
| Dryobates albolarvatus | White-headed woodpecker | G4 | S3 | 2023-01-16 |
| Egretta thula | Snowy egret | G5 | S2B | 2016-03-17 |
| Empidonax traillii adastus | Willow flycatcher | G5T5 | S3B | 2013-04-19 |
| Empidonax traillii brewsteri | Little willow flycatcher | G5T3T4 | S3B | 2013-04-19 |
| Eremohpila alpestris strigata | Streaked horned lark | G5T2 | S2B | 2016-03-18 |
| Falco peregrinus anatum | American peregrine falcon | G4T4 | S3 | 2016-04-11 |
| Fratercula cirrhata | Tufted puffin | G5 | S1 | 2010-04-16 |
| Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus | Pinyon jay | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-12 |
| Haemorhous cassinii | Cassin's finch | G5 | S4 | 2016-07-13 |
| Haemorhous purpureus | Purple fnch | G5 | S4? | 2016-07-12 |
| Histrionicus histrionicus | Harlequin duck | G4 | S2B,S3N | 2016-03-22 |
| Lanius ludovicianus | Loggerhead Shrike | G4 | S3B,S2N | 2012-10-05 |
| Leucosticte astrata | Black rosy-finch | G4 | S2B | 2019-03-06 |
| Melanerpes lewis | Lewis' woodpecker | G4 | S2B,S2?N | 2013-04-22 |
| Oceanodroma leucorhoa | Leach's storm-petrel | G5 | S4 | 2016-06-23 |
| Oreortyx pictus | Mountain quail | G5 | S3S4 | 2013-04-22 |
| Oreoscoptes montanus | Sage thrasher | G5 | S3S4 | 2013-06-20 |
| Phalacrocorax pelagicus | Pelagic cormorant | G5 | S3 | 2016-06-23 |
| Picoides albolarvatus | White-headed woodpecker | G4 | S2 | 2014-10-15 |
| Picoides arcticus | Black-backed woodpecker | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-12 |
| Picoides dorsalis | American Three-toed woodpecker | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-12 |
| Pipilo chlorulus | Green-tailed towhee | G5 | S3S4 | 2016-07-12 |
| Pooecetes gramineus affinis | Oregon vesper sparrow | G5T3? | S1B | 2020-02-18 |
| Psiloscops flammeolus | Flammulated owl | G4 | S3B | 2019-03-07 |
| Regulus satrapa | Golden-crowned kinglet | G5 | S3 | 2013-06-20 |
| Selasphorus calliope | Calliope hummingbird | G5 | S4 | 2016-07-12 |
| Selasphorus rufus | Rufous hummingbird | G5 | S4 | 2016-07-12 |
| Selasphorus sasin | Allen's hummingbird | G5 | S3S4 | 2016-07-12 |
| Spizella breweri | Brewer's sparrow | G5 | S3 | 2013-06-20 |
| Strix occidentalis caurina | Northern spotted owl | G3G4T3 | S2 | 2015-12-14 |
| Sphyrapicus thyroideus | Williamson's sapsucker | G5 | S3S4B, S3N | 2016-07-12 |
| Vireo olivaceus | Red-eyed vireo | G5 | S3S4B | 2013-03-14 |
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alces alces | Moose | G5 | S3 | 2022-06-23 |
| Arborimus albipes | White-footed vole | G3G4 | S3S4 | 2022-10-19 |
| Arborimus longicaudus | Red tree vole | G3G4 | S2S3 | 2022-10-19 |
| Arborimus longicaudus pop. 1 | Red tree vole North Oregon Coast DPS | G2G3TNR | S1S2 | 2022-11-04 |
| Brachylagus idahoensis | Pygmy rabbit | G4 | S2 | 2016-04-01 |
| Canis lupus | Gray wolf | G5 | S1S2 | 2012-03-14 |
| Erethizon dorsatum | Common porcupine | G5 | S3S4 | 2019-05-10 |
| Eumetopias jubatus | Northern sea lion | G3 | S3 | 2019-01-25 |
| Lasionycteris noctivigans | Silver-haired bat | G5 | S3S4 | 2013-05-06 |
| Lepus townsendii | White-tailed jackrabbit | G5 | S2? | 2021-01-06 |
| Myotis lucifugus | Little brown myotis | G3 | S3 | 2013-05-08 |
| Ochotona princeps | American pika | G5 | S2S3 | 2019-02-01 |
| Ovis canadensis canadensis | Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep | G4T4 | S2 | 2016-07-13 |
| Pekania pennanti | Fisher | G5 | S1S2 | 2016-05-02 |
| Parastrellus hesperus | Canyon bat | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-13 |
| Thomomys bulbivorus | Camas pocket gopher | G3G4 | S3S4 | 2022-10-19 |
| Urocitellus washingtoni | Washington ground squirrel | G2 | S2? | 2022-10-19 |
| Vulpes vulpes necator | Sierra Nevada red fox | G5T1T2 | S1 | 2013-05-08 |
Invertebrate Animal Ranks
Documentation forms for Oregon state and global ranks for invertebrate animals are provided in the table below. For detailed information on the ranking process, see Ranking Documentation. For a brief description of the meaning of the rank codes, see Rare Species Ranking Definitions.
Tables of Results: Vascular Plants | Fungi | Vertebrates | Invertebrates
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank | State Rank | Rank Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acupalpus punctulatus | Marsh ground beetle | G2? | S2 | 2010-07-08 |
| Aeshna sitchensis | Zigzag Darner | G5 | S2 | 2016-06-28 |
| Aeshna subarctica | Subarctic darner | G5 | S2? | 2016-06-28 |
| Agonum belleri | Beller's ground beetle | G3 | S1 | 2016-02-16 |
| Andrena winnemuccana | A miner bee | G2? | S2? | 2013-06-14 |
| Atrazonotus umbrosus | Umbrose seed bug | G3? | S3? | 2013-07-10 |
| Bombus caliginosus | Obscure bumblebee | G2G3 | S2? | 2016-06-28 |
| Bombus fervidus | Yellow bumblebee | G4? | S4? | 2016-06-28 |
| Bombus morrisoni | Morrison Bumblebee | G4G5 | S1S2 | 2016-06-28 |
| Bombus occidentalis | Western bumblebee | GU | S1S2 | 2010-08-09 |
| Bombus suckleyi | Suckley's cuckoo bumblebee | G1G3 | S1? | 2016-06-28 |
| Boreostolus americanus | American unique-headed bug | GNR | S3S4 | 2016-05-18 |
| Callophrys johnsoni | Johnson's hairstreak | G3G4 | S3 | 2016-06-30 |
| Capnia kersti | A stonefly | G1G2 | S1 | 2016-06-30 |
| Carinacauda stormi | Cascades axetail slug | G2G3 | S2S3 | 2022-11-10 |
| Cicindela hirticollis couleensis | Hairy-necked tiger beetle | G5T3 | S2? | 2016-05-18 |
| Cicindela hirticollis siuslawensis | Siuslaw hairy-necked tiger beetle | G5T1T2 | S1S2 | 2016-07-01 |
| Cicindela purpurea hatchi | A tiger beetle | G5T3T4 | S2S3? | 2016-07-01 |
| Colias christina pseudochristina | Intermountain sulphur | G3G4T2T4 | S2 | 2010-07-14 |
| Colias christina sullivanti | Sullivan's sulphur | G5T2T3 | S2 | 2012-01-10 |
| Colligyrus sp. 4 | Columbia duskysnail | G2 | S2 | 2011-10-07 |
| Criocoris saliens | Salien plant bug | G2? | S3 | 2016-05-18 |
| Cryptomastix devia | Puget oregonian | G3 | S1 | 2011-10-06 |
| Cryptomastix hendersoni | Columbia Gorge oregonian | G1G2 | S2 | 2019-03-22 |
| Danaus plexippus pop. 1 | Monarch - California overwintering population | G4T2T3 | S1S2B | 2018-02-23 |
| Dendrocoris arizonensis | Arizona stinkbug | G4 | S3? | 2016-05-18 |
| Deroceras hesperium | Evening fieldslug | G2 | S2 | 2011-10-21 |
| Dumontia oregonensis | A water flea | G1G3 | S1 | 2010-10-28 |
| Erpetogomphus compositus | White-belted ringtail | G5 | S4 | 2016-07-01 |
| Farula constricta | A Farulan caddisfly | G1G2 | S1S2 | 2016-07-01 |
| Fluminicola sp. 3 | Diminutive pebblesnail | G1 | S1 | 2011-10-21 |
| Fluminicola sp. 11 | Nerite pebblesnail | G1 | S1 | 2011-10-21 |
| Fluminicola sp. 14 | Tall pebblesnail | G1 | S1 | 2011-10-10 |
| Gomphus kurilis | Pacific clubtail | G4 | S3S4 | 2010-08-09 |
| Gomphus lynnae | Columbia clubtail | G2 | S2 | 2010-07-22 |
| Helicodiscus salmonaceus | Salmon coil | G2 | S2? | 2016-07-01 |
| Hemphillia burringtoni | Jumping-slug | G1G2 | S1S2? | 2016-07-05 |
| Hesperarion mariae | Tillamook westernslug | G3 | S3 | 2009-05-05 |
| Hesperia colorado oregonia | Oregon branded skipper | G5T3T4 | S2 | 2013-06-18 |
| Homoplectra schuhi | Schuh's Homoplectran Caddisfly | G3Q | S3? | 2016-06-24 |
| Hoplistoscelis heidemanni | Heidemann’s damsel bug | G4 | S2S3 | 2016-07-05 |
| Juga sp. 1 | Basalt juga | G2 | S2? | 2019-06-05 |
| Margaritifera falcata | Western pearlshell | G5 | S3 | 2016-07-05 |
| Megomphix lutarius | Umatilla megomphix | G1G2 | S1S2 | 2022-11-11 |
| Monadenia chaceana | Chace sideband | G2G3 | S2S3 | 2011-11-08 |
| Monadenia fidelis celeuthia | Traveling sideband | G4G5T2Q | S2 | 2016-07-06 |
| Monadenia fidelis columbiana | Columbia sideband | G4G5T2Q | S2 | 2016-07-06 |
| Monadenia fidelis minor | Oregon snail (Dalles sideband) | G4G5T2 | S1S2 | 2011-10-25 |
| Philotiella leona | Leona's little blue butterfly | G1G2 | S1 | 2009-11-16 |
| Physella cooperi | Olive physa | G3 | SU | 2010-07-20 |
| Physella virginea | Sunset physa | G4 | S1S2 | 2010-07-21 |
| Plebejus saepiolus littoralis | Coastal greenish blue | G5T1T3 | S1 | 2010-08-03 |
| Polites mardon | Mardon skipper | G2 | S2? | 2022-11-09 |
| Pristiloma crateris | Crater Lake tightcoil | G3 | S3 | 2022-11-11 |
| Pristiloma idahoense | Thinlip tightcoil | G2G3 | S1? | 2016-07-07 |
| Pristiloma johnsoni | Broadwhorl tightcoil | G2G3 | S3 | 2010-09-13 |
| Pristinicola hemphilli | Pristine springsnail | G3 | S3 | 2016-07-06 |
| Prophysaon sp. 1 | Klamath tail-dropper | G2 | S2 | 2016-07-07 |
| Pterostichus johnsoni | Johnson's waterfall carabid beetle | GNR | S3 | 2010-08-09 |
| Pterostichus rothi | Roth's blind carabid beetle | G2? | S2? | 2013-06-18 |
| Pyrgulopsis robusta | Jackson Lake springsnail | G5 | S2S3 | 2016-07-07 |
| Rhyacophila viquaea | A Rhyacophilan Caddisfly | G1G2 | S1 | 2016-07-07 |
| Scaphinotus mannii | Mann's Mollusk-eating Ground Beetle | G1G2 | S1 | 2011-11-01 |
| Speyeria coronis coronis | Coronis fritillary | G5T3T4 | S2 | 2013-06-14 |
| Speyeria cybele | Great Spangled Fritillary | G5 | S4 | 2016-07-07 |
| Vertigo andrusiana | Pacific vertigo | G2G3 | S1 | 2016-07-07 |
| Vespericola sierranus | Siskiyou hesperian | G2 | S2? | 2016-07-07 |
Western Snowy Plover
Western Snowy Plover
Central and Southern Oregon Coast
The western snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus nivosus) was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Oregon Biodiversity Information Center staff have surveyed and monitored snowy plovers along the Oregon coast since the 1990s. Working with partners in the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation, The Nature Conservancy, and many others, ORBIC staff have collected decades of data on plover distribution, nesting locations and success, and predator controls and exclosure methods. Through these and other conservation efforts, populations of the western snowy plover have steadily increased.
Related Information
- Poster, "Documenting causes of Snowy Plover nest failure with cameras." Gaines et al., 2016.
- Annual reports on snowy plover nesting outcomes and other documents are available from OSU's Scholars Archive.
- Story about INR's Plover Team in this 2012 article from KATU about recovering chicks from the Bandon State Natural Area.
- 2016 poster presentation on documenting causes of snowy plover failure with cameras, by Eleanor Gaines and the INR-ORBIC team.
- Video: Working for Plovers
Sponsor: Collaborative project with multiple partners
Purpose: Monitor productivity and document management success
Informs/Impacts: We inform recovery actions for this Threatened shorebird. Oregon/Washington recovery unit is only unit meeting recovery goals. Snowy plovers now nest in all Oregon coastal counties.
6 state and federal partners
35 plovers in 1990
700+ plovers in 2021