The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status

285 PagesJuly 1992 Edition. This report consists of 13 chapters. Chapter is an extended summary of Chapters 3-13, ;providing bare essentials about key findings to establish the basis for our final conclusions, and presenting recommendations. Chapter 2 presents the consensus of the Technical Assessment Team's recommendations about what future efforst should be. Readers can explore the remaining chapters for details on statements and conclusions summarized in Chapter 1. Chapter 3 presents the general background leading to the present issue and summarizes the owl's distributiion throughout California. The next seven chapters describe general biology and ecological relations, results of studies on its habitat associations, its demography and projections of population stability. Chapters 11-13 consider how conifer forests in the owl's range came to be what they are today, refiew the fire history and current fuels problems in owl habitat, and identify projected trends. There are Four Appendices: Chronology of Team activities, Glossary, Common and Scientific names, and Names of Authors.…