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INTRODUCTION <br />he objective of this report is to help citi- <br />zens of Orange County make decisions <br />about habitats for native wildlife. Most <br />of these species depend on forests, the habitat <br />that covered most of Orange County until two <br />hundred years ago. A report on the first phase of <br />this project, Landscape With Wildlife for Orange <br />County (1997), accompanied a series of maps of <br />the County's forests and emphasized the impor- <br />tance of these forests for native wildlife. <br />The present report, the second phase of this <br />project, describes a way to rate the forests of <br />Orange County by their predicted values for <br />wildlife and presents a series of maps with these <br />ratings for the County's remaining forests. <br />The first part of this report reviews some <br />characteristics of forests important for native <br />wildlife. The next part explains a way to rate <br />tracts of forest by the presence or absence of <br />these important characteristics. The final part <br />suggests some ways these ratings can help to <br />preserve the forests of Orange County and their <br />native wildlife. <br />Barred c <br />3 <br />