Flora and Fauna
BMDSF has two California Wildlife Habitat Relationship (CWHR) System habitat types, Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-fir. The Ponderosa Pine habitat type is mainly on the south and west slopes, the Douglas-fir habitat type is mainly on the north and east slopes.
The development of BMDSF as true all-aged forest will provide for a more biologically diverse habitat than is found in the current predominantly young forest. The single tree selection, group selection and sanitation-salvage harvesting will improve the forest habitat by developing and maintaining a variety of crown levels, stand densities and small openings in the forest. Group selection openings will provide habitat for wildlife species that prefer and need edge cover, the openings themselves will provide feeding habitat for rodents and the predators that feed on the rodents.
