The California spotted owl: a technical assessment of its current status

Abstract

This report is based an the Final Repart submitted on May 8, 1992 by the Technical Assessment Team to the interagency Steering Committee for the California Spotted Owl Assessment. The 13 chapters cover the assessment of the current status of the California spotted owl, its biology and habitat use, and forests where the subspecies occurs in the Sierra Nevada and southern California. The report suggests the direction of future inventories and research, identifies projected trends in habitat, and offers guidelines and recommendation for management of the California spotted owl.

Titles contained within The California spotted owl: a technical assessment of its current status

• Assessment of the current status of the California spotted owl, with recommendations for management
• Future Directions for the California spotted owl effort
• Background and the current management situation for the California spotted owl
• The California spotted owl: General biology and ecological relations
• Habitat relations of the California spotted owl
• Home-range and habitat-use of California spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada
• Patterns of habitat use by California spotted owls in logged forests of the northern Sierra Nevada
• Estimates of demographic parameters and rates of population change
• Stability properties of the spotted owl metapopulation in southern California
• General biology of major prey species of the California spotted owl
• Historical perspectives on forests of the Sierra Nevada and the transverse ranges of southern California; forest conditions at the turn of the century
• Fire and fuels management in relation to owl habitat in forests of the Sierra Nevada and southern California
• Projected trends in owl habitat

Keywords

Strix occidentalis occidentalis, habitat attributes, old-growth, resource management, Sierra Nevada, southern California

Citation

Verner, Jared; McKelvey, Kevin S.; Noon, Barry R.; Gutierrez, R. J.; Gould, Gordon I. Jr.; Beck, Thomas W., Technical Coordinators. 1992. The California spotted owl: a technical assessment of its current status. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-133. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 285 p.