DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Pinus contorta var. latifolia | Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine grows from the central Yukon Territory
south throughout British Columbia and western Alberta east of the Coast
Range.  In the United States it grows throughout the Rocky Mountain
states from Idaho and Montana to southern Colorado, and in the Cascades
as far south as the Washington-Oregon border.  Outlying eastern
populations occur in the Caribou Mountains of northern Alberta, in the
Cypress Hills of southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, in
central Montana, and in the Black Hills of South Dakota [16,46,78].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES19  Aspen - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands


STATES : 
     CO  ID  HI  MT  OR  SD  UT  WA  WY  AB
     BC  NT  SK  YT


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     GLAC  GRTE  HALE  MORA  NOCA  ROMO
     YELL


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   224  Western hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Extensive lodgepole pine forests occur throughout the range of this
species.  Many of these forests are seral; however, under certain
conditions lodgepole pine may attain climax.  Lodgepole pine habitat
types are found on sites where topoedaphic situations exclude the
establishment of other conifers [see SUCCESSIONAL STATUS], and generally
lie between colder portions of the Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
series and wetter portions of the subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)
series [79].  In Montana, the lodgepole pine habitat type series occurs
east of the Continental Divide primarily between 5,000 and 7,500 feet
(1,500-2,300 m) in elevation [67].  In the Colorado Front Range, this
zone lies between 8,200 and 9,300 feet (2,500-3,800 m) [57], and in the
Uinta Mountains of Utah, between 7,600 and 9,100 feet (2,300-2,800 m)
[56].

Classifications listing lodgepole pine as a dominant in community types
(cts), habitat types (hts), dominance types (dts), or ecosystem
associations (eas) are presented below:

Area                     Classification         Authority

CO: Routt NF             forest veg. hts        Hoffman & Alexander 1980
    Gunnison &           forest veg. hts        Komarkova & others 1988
     Uncompahgre NF
    Roosevelt &          forest veg. hts        Hess & Alexander 1986 
     Arapaho NF
    White River &        general veg. hts       Hess & Wasser 1982
     Arapaho NF   
WY: Medicine Bow NF      forest veg. hts        Alexander & others 1986 
    Bighorn Mtns.        forest veg. hts        Hoffman & Alexander 1976
    Wind River Mtns.     coniferous forest hts  Reed 1976
e ID, w WY               forest hts             Steele & others 1983
ID: Caribou &            aspen cts              Mueggler & Campbell 1982
     Targhee NF        
n ID                     forest hts             Cooper & others 1991
c ID                     forest hts             Steele & others 1981
n UT                     coniferous forest hts  Mauk & Henderson 1984
UT                       aspen cts              Mueggler & Campbell 1986
OR: Eagle Cap Wldns.     general veg. cts       Cole 1982
e OR, se WA: Blue Mtns.  general veg. cts       Hall 1973
OR, WA                   general veg. cts       Franklin & Dyrness 1973
MT                       forest veg. hts        Pfister & others 1977
                         riparian dts           Hansen & others 1988
SD, WY: Black Hills NF   forest veg. hts, cts   Hoffman & Alexander 1987

AB                       general veg. cts       Moss 1955
w-c AB                   forest eas             Corns & Annas 1986
BC: Prince Rupert Forest general veg. eas       Haeussler & others 1985
     Region-Interior
     Cedar-Hemlock zone
    Prince Rupert Forest general veg. eas       Pojar & others 1984
     Region-Subboreal
     Spruce zone

Related categories for Species: Pinus contorta var. latifolia | Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine