Species Accounts & Bio-monitoring
INR-OSU and INR-PSU/ORBIC have been working with the USDA Forest Service Northwest (Region 6), Southwest (Region 5), and Alaska (Region 10) to write species accounts for potential species of conservation concern on their lands as required for updating national forest plans. This work is being done on species in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon and California; the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman forests within the Blue Mountains in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; and Tongass National Forest in Alaska. For work in the Blue Mountains, INR is working 183 species accounts including 127 vascular plants, 16 bryophytes/lichens/fungi, and 40 animals following templates provided by the Forest Service. INR is also helping the Forest Service sample lichen biomonitoring plots for their air quality program.
Species account documents will be posted to the INR-PSU Species of Conservation Concern Scholars Archive collection.