USDA Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest, 16400 Champion Way, Sandy, OR 97055

A -- BIOLOGICAL/AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, LITERATURE SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GENERAL SURVEYS OF FOREST UNDERSTORY AND CANOPY GAP HERBIVORES SOL R6-6-00-149 DUE 072800 POC Procurement & Property Management, Northwest Oregon Contracting Area, Khanida P. Mote, Contract Specialist, 503/668-1645; FAX 503/668-1763 WEB: Mt. Hood National Forest, http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/noca/. E-MAIL: POCs for requesting solicitation packet for this project, jmhunt@fs.fed.us or egoff@fs.fed.us with CC: to kmote@fs.fed.us. These are the specifications for the "Request for proposals" to which you are responding Specifications For Literature Synthesis And Recommendations For General Surveys for Forest Understory and Canopy Gap Herbivores There are multiple tasks for this highly technical project. Task 1. Provided is an URL (http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/nr/fid/rfp/) with a bibliography of the published (1978 to the present) literature concerning the families of arthropods listed in Appendix 1. (Please note that a hardcopy of the information located at the given web site will not be included in the solicitation packet). Determine which of the 1505 citations may be pertinent to California, Oregon and Washington for the forest understory and canopy gap herbivore guild (Herbivores are chewers, fluid suckers, and miners of above-ground foliage, stems, and flowers of macrophytic plants. This also includes those that feed on pollen, nectar or floral parts or seeds or in cones. Parsons, G. (and others). 1991. Invertebrates of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, western Cascade Range, Oregon. V: An annotated list of insects and other arthropods. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW_GTR-290. Portland, OR. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 168 pp.). Consider only articles in English, Spanish, German or French languages. Task 2. Annotate the citations found pertinent in 1 above: write no more than one page summarizing the important findings in each of the papers. Task.3. Add additional annotated bibliographic citations for literature published prior to 1978, and literature which may have been missed by the bibliography in 1 above, which provides relevant information on biology or ecology, especially endemism, environmental or ecological requirements of taxa within the forest understory and canopy gap herbivore guild, and the effects of fire, timber harvest or any other forest management practice or disturbance on taxa within the guild. Product 1: Annotated bibliographic listings for forest understory and canopy gap herbivores found in California, Oregon and Washington alphabetized by last name of principal author and year of publication submitted on IBM compatible 3.5 inch computer disks or 100 mb Iomega(r) zip disks in Word for Windows(r) or Word Perfect(r). Task 4. Determine which species of forest understory and canopy gap herbivore arthropods, identified in the above bibliography, are likely to be found in the area represented as the Southern Range of the Northern Spotted Owl (Oregon Klamath, California Klamath, California Coast Range, and California Cascades terrestrial ecosystem physiographic provinces). Task 5. Identify the major gaps in information without which land managers in the Southern Range of the Northern Spotted Owl will be unable to effectively protect the ecological functions of forest understory and canopy gap herbivores. Recommend the priority of and locations or habitats (vegetative types or plant associations) and the reasons why you believe strategic surveys may help to fill the information gaps. Recommend the taxonomic resolution with which to design surveys (species, genus, family, order?) and indicate the relative priority (high, medium, or low) for each taxon. Give your reasons for these recommendations. Product 2: A report of forest understory and canopy gap herbivore species likely to occur in the Southern Range of the Northern Spotted Owl with recommendations and the rationale for strategic surveys. Include the taxonomic resolution, priority taxa and habitats suggested to be surveyed. This report to be submitted on IBM compatible 3.5 inch computer disks or 100 MB Iomega(r) zip disks in Word for Windows(r) or Word Perfect(r). Appendix 1 -- Forest understory and canopy gap herbivores M-vg, O-vg and R-vg from Parsons, G. (and others). 1991. Invertebrates of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, western Cascade Range, Oregon. V: An annotated list of insects and other arthropods. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW_GTR-290. Portland, OR. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 168 pp. (Herbivores are chewers, fluid suckers, and miners of above-ground foliage, stems, and flowers of macrophytic plants. This also includes those that feed on pollen, nectar or floral parts or seeds or in cones. Parsons et al 1991) CLASS ORDER FAMILY Insecta Orthoptera Acrididae Gryllidae Tettigoniidae Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae Thripidae Hemiptera: Heteroptera Berytidae Miridae Lygaeidae Rhopalidae Scutelleridae Thyreocoridae Tingidae Hemiptera: Homoptera Aphididae Cercopidae Cicadellidae Delphacidae Derbidae Dictyopharidae Membracidae Psyllidae Coleoptera Buprestidae Carabidae Cerambycidae Chrysomelidae Cleridae Coccinellidae Curculionidae Dermestidae Elateridae Melandryidae Meloidae Mordellidae Scarabaeidae Strepsiptera Stylopidae Mecoptera Boreidae Lepidoptera Arctiidae Cosmopterigidae Drepanidae Geometridae Hesperidae Lycaenidae Noctuidae Notodontidae Nymphalidae Papilionidae Pieridae Plutellidae Pyralidae Saturniidae Satyridae Sphingidae Thyatiridae Diptera Axmyiidae Bombyliidae Chloropidae Conopidae Opomyzidae Syrphidae Tabanidae Tachinidae Tephritidae Hymenoptera Andrenidae Anthophoridae Apidae Cimbicidae Colletidae Halictidae Megachilidae Tenthredinidae Specifications for this project will be available on or about June 28, 2000, and offers will be accepted until close of business on July 28, 2000. To request a solicitation packet, please send email to: jmhunt@fs.fed.us or egoff@fs.fed.us, with CC: to kmote@fs.fed.us. Posted 06/09/00 (W-SN463450). (0161)

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