DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Sequoia sempervirens | Redwood 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Redwood is endemic to the coastal area of northern California and
southwestern Oregon.  The redwoods occupy a narrow strip of land
approximately 450 miles (724 km) in length and 5 to 35 miles (8-56 km)
in width.  The northern boundary of its range is marked by two groves on
the Chetco River in the Siskiyou Mountains within 15 miles (25 km) of
the California-Oregon border [22,40].  The southern boundary of
redwood's range is marked by a grove in Salmon Creek Canyon in the Santa
Lucia Mountains of southern Monterey County, California [40].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES27  Redwood


STATES : 
     CA  OR  HI


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     MUWO  PORE  REDW


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    3  Southern Pacific Border


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


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

Coast redwood ecological types of southern Montery County, California [11].
Terrestrial natural communities of California [26].
The redwood forest and associated north coast forests [58].
Forest associations of Little Lost Man Creek, Humboldt County,
  California: Reference-level in the hierarchical struture of
  old-growth coastal redwood vegetaion [30].
Preliminary plant associations of the Siskiyou Mountain Province [5].
Tanoak series of the Siskiyou Region of southwest Oregon [6].

Related categories for Species: Sequoia sempervirens | Redwood