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DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE

SPECIES: Vaccinium alaskensis | Alaska Blueberry
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Alaska blueberry occurs from the Cascade Range in northern Oregon and Washington to Prince William Sound, Alaska [4,32,33,55]. ECOSYSTEMS : FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES23 Fir - spruce FRES24 Hemlock - Sitka spruce STATES : AK OR WA BC ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : GLBA NOCA OLYM BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 1 Northern Pacific Border 2 Cascade Mountains KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : K001 Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest K002 Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest K003 Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest K004 Fir - hemlock forest K012 Douglas-fir forest K015 Western spruce - fir forest SAF COVER TYPES : 205 Mountain hemlock 206 Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir 223 Sitka spruce 224 Western hemlock 225 Western hemlock - Sitka spruce 226 Coastal true fir - hemlock 227 Western redcedar - western hemlock 228 Western redcedar 229 Pacific Douglas-fir 230 Douglas-fir - western hemlock SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : Alaska blueberry occurs as an understory dominant or codominant in many habitats within its range. It is most often associated with Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), mountain hemlock (T. mertensiana), and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis). The Pacific silver fir/Alaska blueberry community type occurs over large areas of land from northern Oregon to southern British Columbia. It may be the most widely represented community type within the Cascade Range [18,20]. Other commonly associated species include noble fir (Abies procera), Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), salal (Gaultheria shallon), rusty menziesia (Menziesia ferruginea), beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax), bunchberry dogwood (Cornus canadensis), Oregon grape (Berberis nervosa), Pacific rhododendron (Rhododendron macrophyllum), devil's club (Oplopanax horridum), skunk cabbage (Veratrum californicum), and various gooseberries (Ribes spp.), and blackberries (Rubus spp.). [also see SAF cover types] Published classification schemes identifying Alaska blueberry as a major component of plant associations (pas), community types (cts), or habitat types (hts) are as follows: AREA CLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY AK gen. veg. pas Viereck & Dyrness 1980 OR: Willamette NF forest pas Hemstrom and others 1987 OR: MT Hood & Willamette NF forest pas Hemstrom and others 1982 OR: MT Hood NF forest pas Halverson and others 1986 OR: central Cascades forest pas Dyrness and others 1974 WA:Gifford Pinchot NF Pacific silver fir Brockway and others 1985 zone pas wWA forest cts del Moral & Fleming 1979 wWA:Cedar River drainage montane forest cts del Moral & Long 1977 WA: Cascades forest cts del Moral & Watson 1978 sWA: Cascades subalpine forest pas Franklin 1966 WA: MT Rainier NP forest pas Franklin and others 1988 WA: Gifford Pinchot NF forest pas Topik and others 1986 Pacific Northwest noble fir ht Franklin 1983

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