DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Pinus monticola | Western White Pine 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Western white pine occurs in the Pacific Northwest.  The northern
boundary of its range is at Quesnel Lake, British Columbia, latitude 52
deg. 30 min. N., and the southern boundary is at Tulare County,
California, latitude 35 deg. 51 min. N.  The western boundary is marked
by the Pacific Coast, and the eastern boundary is at Glacier National
Park, Montana.  Western white pine reaches its greatest size and best
stand and commercial development in northern Idaho and adjacent parts of
Montana, Washington, and British Columbia [11].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES22  Western white pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES25  Larch
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine


STATES : 
     CA  ID  MT  NV  OR  WA  AB  BC


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     CODA  CRLA  GLAC  HALE  LAVO  LABE
     MORA  NOCA  OLYM  YOSE


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    4  Sierra Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky 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
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   207  Red fir
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   224  Western hemlock
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   247  Jeffrey pine
   256  California mixed subalpine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Western white pine is a seral species that is present in a number of
habitat types, associations, and communities throughout its range.  In
northern Idaho and eastern Washington, it may dominate early
successional stages of the western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)/queencup
beadlily (Clintonia uniflora) and western redcedar (Thuga
plicata)/queencup beadlily habitat types [71].  It is also a major seral
species in the western hemlock/queencup beadlily habitat type in western
Monatana and is a major constituent of the western hemlock zone in the
Puget Sound area of Washington [11].  A western white pine riparian
dominance type has been described for northwestern Montana [14].
Associated species are those associated with the Aralia phase of the
subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)/queencup beadlily habitat type [14].
Western white pine is moderately abundant, usually growing in small
groups and often interspersed with other species, in the subalpine
forest zone on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada [50].

Related categories for Species: Pinus monticola | Western White Pine