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SPECIES: Gaylussacia baccata | Black Huckleberry
WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE : NO-ENTRY IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE : Black huckleberry provides food, shelter, and cover for wildlife. Numerous birds including sharp-tailed grouse, greater prairie chicken, bobwhite quail, wild turkey, mourning dove, catbird, and scarlet tanager eat the berries [19,52]. Black bear, gray fox, and fox squirrel also eat the berries. White-tailed deer, snowshoe hare, and cottontail rabbit browse stems lightly [19,50]. PALATABILITY : Black huckleberry was not highly preferred by white-tailed deer and snowshoe hare [50]. NUTRITIONAL VALUE : NO-ENTRY COVER VALUE : NO-ENTRY VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES : Black huckleberry is used for erosion control on sterile acidic sites [19]. In Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, black huckleberry cover and density were less where soil was contaminated with heavy metals from a nearby smelter than in uncontaminated areas [23]. OTHER USES AND VALUES : Black huckleberry fruits are edible [8]. Black huckleberry is occasionally used in ornamental plantings [19]. MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : Niering and Goodwin [36] recommend black huckleberry for right-of-way clearings in Connecticut where trees interfere with powerlines. Dense black huckleberry thickets resisted invasion of trees for at least 15 years in a right-of-way from which trees were originally removed by herbicide application [36]. Black huckleberry is recommended for restoration of the native dwarf pitch pine-oak forests of the New Jersey pine barrens. Black huckleberry is a native component of this forest and provides long-term stability, structural diversity, and wildlife benefits [17]. Propagation techniques are described for black huckleberry [19]. Equations for predicting black huckleberry biomass are available [43,44].

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