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Skunk Gulch (Oil) 

 Woodhurst Mountain (012) 

 Hay Canyon I (015) 

 Hay Canyon II (016) . 



B. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND RESPONSE: Little is known of 

 the specific responses of Goodyera repens to grazing or 

 timber harvest. However, given its restriction to a 

 fairly specialized habitat and obligate relationship 

 with mycorrhizal fungi, and due to its association in 

 Montana with moist sites in established feather moss 

 layers, management practices especially timber harvest, 

 are likely to be detrimental to populations. 



C. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MAINTAINING VIABLE POPULATIONS: 



The following recommendations are made to ensure that 

 the long-term viability of Goodyera repens populations 

 is maintained on U.S. Forest Service land in Montana. 



1. Protection of natural habitats that currently 

 support Goodyera repens populations . Management 

 plans on the Lewis and Clark National Forest 

 should take all known populations into 

 consideration and prevent disturbance of the 

 sites . 



2 . Notification of U.S. Forest Service personnel of 

 sites on U.S. Forest Service lands . To prevent 

 inadvertent impacts on currently known sites, 

 personnel involved in planning activities should 

 be provided with detailed information on the 

 location of Goodyera repens populations. It is 

 especially important that timber sale managers, 

 engineers, and range conservationists at the 

 Ranger District level know these locations so that 

 disturbance can be prevented. 



D. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER ASSESSMENT 



1. Further field surveys of potential habitats . 



Additional field surveys should be made in central 

 Montana in portions of the Lewis and Clark 

 National Forest in the Little Belt Mountains, the 

 Snowy Mountains, and the Castle Mountains. Prime 

 potential habitats are old age Douglas fir forests 

 on cool, northerly-aspect sites, with well 

 developed moss understories. In the Little Belt 

 Mountains and in the Big Snowy Range, populations 

 were observed only on calcareous substrates. The 

 substrate on which the population in Glacier Park 

 is located is not known. Further surveys to the 



