DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis | Alaska-Cedar 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Alaska-cedar is found in the Pacific Coast mountain ranges from
south-central Alaska to southwestern Oregon with isolated groves in the
Siskiyou Moutains of northern California [1,23,24].  The eastern edge of
Alaska-cedar's range is defined by two disjunct populations:  one in the
Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia [33] and one in the
Aldrich Mountains of central Oregon [1].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce


STATES : 
     AK  CA  OR  WA  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GLBA  LACL  MORA  NOCA  OLYM  REDW
     SAJH  WRST


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra 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
   215  Western white pine
   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


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Alaska-cedar is listed as a dominant or codominant overstory species in
the following publications:

A preliminary classification system for vegetation of Alaska [55].
The forest communities of Mount Rainer National Park [17].
A preliminary classification of forest communities in the central
  portion of the western Cascades in Oregon [9].
Preliminary plant associationa of the southern Cascade Mountain Province [2].
Preliminary plant associations of the Siskiyou Mountain Province [3].
Vegetation and the environment in old growth forests of northern
  southeast Alaska:  A plant association classification [44].

Related categories for Species: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis | Alaska-Cedar