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The Wolves of the West - Pacific Coast Ranges

This article is about the mountain ranges of the west coast of North America.

Alexander Archipelago wolves live in our Pacific temperate rainforests (WWF ecoregion) of The Tongass National Forest 

The range of the Alexander Archipelago wolf covers all of southeastern Alaska (the Alaskan panhandle) except the Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof Islands.

Controversy over habitat management

In Southeast Alaska, the Sitka black-tailed deer is the primary prey of the rare Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni), which is endemic to the region.^[15] In the mid-1990s, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service evaluated a petition to list this wolf species as threatened, and decided a listing was not warranted in August 1997, largely on the basis of provisions the Forest Service had included to protect the viability of the wolf species in its Forest Plan for the Tongass National Forest, adopted three months earlier.^[16] The Tongass NF is important in wolf conservation because it includes about 80% of the region's land area. The protections for the wolf included a standard and guideline intended to retain, in the face of logging losses, enough habitat carrying capacity for deer in winter to assure the viability of the Alexander Archipelago wolf and an adequate supply of deer for hunters. The needed carrying capacity was originally specified as 13 deer per square mile, but was corrected in 2000 to 18. Use of a deer model is specified for determining carrying capacity, and is the only tool available for the purpose.^[17][18]

However, the Forest Service's implementation of the deer provision in the Tongass wolf standard and guideline has been controversial for many years, and led to a lawsuit by Greenpeace and Cascadia Wildlands in 2008, over four logging projects. The data set the Forest Service was using in the deer model was known through the agency's own study (done in 2000) to generally overestimate the carrying capacity for deer and underestimate the impacts of logging.^[19] The study showed the data set (called Vol-Strata) is not correlated to habitat quality.^[20][21] Also, a conversion factor, known as the "deer multiplier" (used in calculating carrying capacity) was incorrectly applied, causing — by itself – a 30% overestimation of carrying capacity and corresponding underestimation of impacts.^[19] The combined effect of the two errors is variable because Vol-Strata is not correlated to habitat quality. Regarding the Traitors Cove Timber Sales project, in 2011 the plaintiffs noted in oral arguments before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the difference is between a claimed 21 deer per square mile carrying capacity in the project EIS, and 9.5 deer per square mile (about half of the Tongass Forest Plan's requirement) according to unpublished corrections the agency made in 2008.

via ~ Wikipedia: Black-tailed deer 

The first survey to systematically explore the forest canopy in the Carmanah Valley of Vancouver Island yielded 15,000 new species, a third of all invertebrates known to exist in all of Canada. Among the collection were 500 species previously unknown to science.

The rain forest exists in a complicated landscape of islands and fjords, and many species depend on both the forest and the ocean. Salmon are one of the primary species of the rainforest, spawning in the forest streams. The marbled murrelet nests in old growth trees at night, but feeds in the ocean during the day.

Many of the most iconic photos of these forests include a large bear somewhere in the frame. Grizzly bears and black bears once thrived throughout the rain forest zone and beyond. Black bears can still be found throughout the forest's range, while grizzlies are largely confined to areas north of the Canada–US border. These forests have some of the largest concentrations of grizzly bears in the world, mainly due to the region's rich salmon streams. The Great Bear Rainforest in Canada is home to the rare white variant of the black bear known as the "spirit bear." The endangered spotted owl was at the center of logging controversies in Oregon and Washington. Other wildlife species of note include the bald eagle, marbled murrelet, wolf, and sitka deer.

via ~ Wikipedia: Pacific temperate rainforests ecoregion

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Welcome to Oregon. 

Oregon has a long history, a history of long ago legends. Mountains and valleys filled with treasures of all shapes and sizes. I am honored to have been born and raised here. I have lived here all my life except for about four years that I did not. My parents both also raised here in Oregon, were quite the adventurers. Purchasing some remote property in a small town called Merlin, they began clearing it of Manzanita bushes, buck brush and poison oak with my older sister, younger brother and myself. I was so young my memories are are cloudy of most things yet I clearly remember our dad taking us out day after day as we cleared the land. He would roll over logs pointing out anything harmful. Scorpions, centipedes, poisons snakes and spiders. We spend many days collecting specimens of all the native reptile and insect species. 

Our summers from sunrise to sunset were filled with Camping, rafting, fishing and hiking along the Rogue River.  

Bigfoot Sketch 1 © K’s Days 2013 

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