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Table WLCH.sp-15. Ancillary data for trees used by wildlife species or groups in Westside Lowland Conifer-Hardwood Forests Wildlife Habitat Type. Snags in reviewed studies were re-classified for this work into one of three decay classes; hard, moderate, or soft, per Bull et al. (1997). "Tree species 1" is the tree species used most often by the wildlife species shown for that particular study. "Tree species 2 is the tree species used next most often, etc. If selection data was available, then Tree species 1 is the tree species most selected by the wildlife species, and so on for Tree species 2, 3, and 4.

Wildlife Species Trees sampled (n) Live trees used (% of all trees used) Dead trees used (% of all trees used) Decay class of snag used Condition of tree top Hollow tree or snag Tree species 1 Tree species 2 Tree species 3 Tree species 4 Wildlife use of tree Structural Condition Class Geographic Location Citation
AMKE
2
Broken Douglas-fir nest Open canopy Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
AMMA
5
80
20
natal den Small/medium trees and Larger trees Washington Cascades Jones and Raphael 1991
AMMA
120
65
35
resting Small/medium trees and Larger trees Washington Cascades Jones and Raphael 1991
BATS Hard association Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees western Oregon and Washington Erickson and West 2003
BBBA
42
Douglas-fir westerm redcedar western hemlock roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees western Oregon Cascades Arnett 2007
BRCR
50
18
82
Moderate Douglas-fir cedal nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
BRCR
6
17
83
Moderate-hard Douglas-fir nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
BRCR
3
Broken Douglas-fir western redcedar nest Larger trees Zarnowitz 1982
CAAS
333
bigleaf maple Oregon white oak Pacific madrone Oregon ash, bitter cherry unk Open canopy Oregon Coast Range Chambers et al. 1997
CBCH
21
100
nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
CBCH
14
100
Moderate-soft nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
CBCH
96
6
94
Douglas-fir cedar big-leaf maple nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
CBCH
32
3
97
Soft-Moderate Douglas-fir nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
CBCH
7
0
100
Broken Douglas-fir western hemlock nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982; Zarnowitz and Manuwal 1985
CNB
68
Moderate Douglas-fir western hemlock white pine nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
CNB
244
0
100
Moderate-hard nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
CNB
13
100
Moderate-soft nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
DOWO
1
Broken red alder nest Small/medium trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnoqitz 1982; Zarnowitz and Manuwal 1985
ENSA Soft correlation Small/medium trees western Washington Cascades Aubry 2000
EUST
11
100
all nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987
FRMY
10
Douglas-fir white fir sugar pine roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees SW Oregon, Little River area Cross et al. 1996
HAWO
99
all foraging Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
HAWO
32
Moderate Broken (81%) Douglas-fir grand fir western hemlock nest Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Brett 1998
HAWO
18
6
94
Hard nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
HAWO
7
Moderate nest Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
HAWO
53
100
Moderate Broken Douglas-fir western hemlock nest Open canopy western Oregon Cascades McCullough 1992
HAWO
23
22
78
Douglas-fir grand fir big-leaf maple nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
HAWO
9
100
Hard-moderate nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987
HAWO
38
Soft-hard foraging Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
HAWO
16
0
100
Moderate nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
HAWO
16
Broken western hemlock Douglas-fir nest Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
HOWR
104
100
Moderate-soft nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
HOWR
2
Moderate nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
LEMY
24
Douglas-fir western hemlock roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees western Oregon Cascades Arnett 2007
LEMY
38
western hemlock Douglas-fir roosts (stumps) Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Waldien 1998; Waldien et al. 2000
LEMY
20
Moderate-hard Broken (90%) Douglas-fir western hemlock redcedar roosts Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Waldien 1998; Waldien et al. 2000
LLMY
105
Douglas-fir western hemlock western redcedar roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees western Oregon Cascades Arnett 2007
LLMY
2
Douglas-fir fir spp roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees SW Oregon, Little River area Cross et al. 1996
LLMY
36
10
90
all Douglas-fir western hemlock western redcedar roosts Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Ormsbee 1996 a & b; Ormsbee and McComb 1998
NFSQ
12
42
58
conifers den Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range Carey et al. 1997
NFSQ
9
44
56
conifers den Small/medium trees Olympic Peninsula Carey et al. 1997
NFSQ
490
62
38
conifers red alder den Small/medium trees Puget Trough Carey et al. 1997
NFSQ
93
68
32
conifers den Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Carey et al. 1997
NFSQ
134
56
44
den Small/medium trees and Larger trees south-central Oregon Cascades Feen 1997
NOFL
27
all foraging Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
NOFL
63
Moderate-soft Broken (94%) Douglas-fir grand fir western hemlock nest Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Brett 1998
NOFL
3
33
67
nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
NOFL
8
Moderate-soft nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
NOFL
52
4
96
Moderate Broken Douglas-fir western hemlock nest Open canopy western Oregon Cascades McCullough 1992
NOFL
9
33
67
Douglas-fir grand fir nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
NOFL
16
100
all nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
NOFL
1
Soft nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
NOFL
7
Broken Douglas-fir western hemlock nest Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
NPOW
8
100
Moderate-soft western hemlock Douglas-fir red alder nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Giese et al. 1997
NPOW
3
100
Douglas-fir cedar nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
PYOW
1
Soft nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
PIWO
94
8
92
Douglas-fir western hemlock redcedar deciduous foraging Small/medium trees and Larger trees southeastern Vancouver Island Hartwig 1999
PIWO
26
Douglas-fir western hemlock redcedar foraging Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
PIWO
31
all foraging Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
PIWO
25
48
52
10 of 13 (77%) hard Broken (88%); Intact (8%); multiple (4%) Pacific silver fir red alder western hemlock nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Aubry and Raley 2002
PIWO
570
98
2
      western hemlock Pacific silver fir     foraging Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Raley and Aubry 2006
PIWO
2
100
nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
PIWO
15
7
93
Douglas-fir red alder nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mellen 1987
PIWO
6
17
83
Douglas-fir grand fir nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
PIWO
28
21
79
Douglas-fir grand fir deciduous nesting/ roosting Small/medium trees and Larger trees southeastern Vancouver Island Hartwig 1999; Hartwig et al. 2004
PIWO
144
50
50
19 of 71 (27%) hard Broken (71%); intact (12%); multiple (17%) 100% (n=20) western redcedar Pacific silver fir Douglas-fir western hemlock roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Aubry and Raley 2002
PIWO
13
46
54
Douglas-fir red alder big-leaf maple cedar roosts Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mellen 1987
RBNU
19
16
84
nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
RBNU
7
Moderate nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
RBNU
59
7
93
Douglas-fir grand fir big-leaf maple nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
RBNU
10
Moderate-hard nest Small/medium trees Oregon Coast Range - Tillamook Burn Weikel and Hayes unpublished data
RBSA
68
Hard-mod Broken (81%) Douglas-fir grand fir western hemlock nest Open canopy, Small/medium trees and Larger trees central Oregon Cascades Brett 1998
RBSA
4
100
Hard nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
RBSA
9
Moderate nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Mannan et al. 1980
RBSA
30
17
83
Douglas-fir grand fir nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Nelson 1988
RBSA
2
Broken western hemlock nest Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
SPOW
15
100
Broken Douglas-fir, western hemlock, western redcedar nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Hershey et al. 1998
SPOW
30
100
Broken Douglas-fir nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Cascades Hershey et al. 1998
SPOW
30
100
Broken Douglas-fir nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Oregon Coast Range Hershey et al. 1998
TRSW
18
100
Moderate nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
TRSW
3
Broken Douglas-fir sitka spruce nest Open canopy Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
VGSW
38
100
Soft nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
WEBL
18
100
Moderate-soft nest Open canopy central Oregon Coast Range Schreiber 1987; Schreiber and deCalesta 1992
WEBL
3
Broken Douglas-fir nest Open canopy Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
WIWR
4
Broken Douglas-fir western redcedar nest Small/medium trees and Larger trees Olympic Peninsula Zarnowitz 1982
WOPE
3538
7
93
Moderate-soft foraging Small/medium trees and Larger trees southern Washington Cascades Lundquist 1988
WRBS Soft correlation Small/medium trees western Washington Cascades Aubry 2000