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Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl - DRAFT

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Table 2.1. Median annual home range areas (in acres) of spotted owl pairs in differentstudy areas and physiographic provinces.aState No. RangeLocation of ForestSite Pairs Typeb Median Min Max SourcescCali<strong>for</strong>niaKlamath MountainsUkonom 9 MC 3,314 2,056 7,823 1Mad River 12 MC 2,975 1,803 4,685 1Willow Creek 2 MC 1,692 1,258 2,126 2OregonSouth CoastChetco 4 MH 5,614 5,327 6,197 1Klamath MountainsSouth Umpqua 3 MC 1,411 1,035 1,504 3Cow Creek 6 MC 4,106 2,499 7,494 3Coast RangesTyee 5 DF/HEM 3,387 1,880 8,272 3Peterson 4 DF/HEM 6,318 3,483 10,189 3Eugene BLM 4 DF/HEM 6,390 3,715 8,180 4O<strong>the</strong>rd 4 DF/HEM 4,183 2,849 9,748 5Kellogge 5 MC 4,072 1,618 6,281 3Western Cascades 11 DF/HEM 2,955 1,443 9,758 6,7WashingtonWestern Cascades 11 DF/HEM 6,657 2,969 17,942 8,9,10Olympic Peninsula 10 HEM/DF 14,271 4,497 27,309 9,11(Note -Table follows Thomas et al (1990) with changes based on Forsman and Hays (pers comm.))aPair ranges were calculated by delineating 100 percent MCPs (minimum convex polygons) total = exclusive area of male + exclusive area of female+ <strong>the</strong> area of overlap shared by <strong>the</strong> two sexes.bMC = mixed conifer, MH = mixed conifer/evergreen, DF/HEM = Douglas-fir, western hemlock, HEM/DF = mostly western hemlock with Douglas-firintermixed.C 1 = Paton et al. (1990), 2 = Solis (1983), 3 = Carey (pers comm.), 4 = Thrailkill and Meslow (pers. comm.), 5 = Carey et al (1989), 6 = Forsman andMeslow (1985), 7 = Miller (pers comm ), 8 = Allen et al (1989), 9 = Hays et al (1989), 10 = Hamer (pers. comm.), 11 = Forsman (pers. comm)dIncludes four sites in <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn Coast Ranges near RoseburgeThis was a relatively dry area bordering <strong>the</strong> Umpqua River Valley, characterized by mixed conifer <strong>for</strong>est more typical of <strong>the</strong> Oregon Klamath provincethan <strong>the</strong> Coast Rangesowl home ranges (Harestad and Bunnell 1979, Lindstedt et al. 1986). Thus,because spotted owls do not fit <strong>the</strong>oretical predictions of <strong>the</strong>ir home range sizebased on mammalian allometric analysis, it should not be expected that <strong>the</strong>ycan survive and reproduce in a much restricted home range based on extrapolationfrom studies of mammals (SOW 1991).One important feature of an owl's home range is <strong>the</strong> amount of suitable habitatwithin <strong>the</strong> boundaries of <strong>the</strong> home range. Thomas et al. (1990) summarized<strong>the</strong> amounts of old-growth and mature <strong>for</strong>est within spotted owl pair homeranges (see Table 2.2). The median amount of <strong>the</strong>se late seral stage <strong>for</strong>ests <strong>for</strong>a number of studies within <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn spotted owl's range was 615 to 4,579acres. In only three studies were median amounts of <strong>the</strong>se <strong>for</strong>est less than1,000 acres. In one of <strong>the</strong>se studies (Solis 1983), <strong>the</strong> sample was small (two23

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