Transcript Huckleberry enhancement on the Mt. Baker

Huckleberry enhancement
on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie NF
Laura Potash Martin1, Warren KingGeorge2, and Tracy
Fuentes1, 3
1Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie NF, Mountlake Terrace, WA
2Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Auburn, WA
3 New affililation: US Geological Survey, Seattle, WA
Why are we here?
• To learn from others’ experiences
• To share information
• To link to huckleberry management and
research network
• To raise awareness of importance of big
huckleberry management as tribal concern
Project Goal
• To combine current species research and knowledge of big
huckleberry distribution and abundance on Forest with traditional
tribal knowledge to develop a site-specific and culturally relevant
huckleberry management plan
Approach
• Select areas of historical traditional use
• Overlay mapped association groups to
target areas for enhancement
• Identify potentially appropriate treatments
– Burning
– Pollination
– Cutting and removing invading trees
– Propagating huckleberries and replanting
– Others?
Plant association groups and plant association with the greatest relative
cover of big huckleberry (Henderson et al 1992)
PAG
Dry VAME
Mountain
Hemlock
Mesic VAME
PAG
Cool VAME
Pacific
Silver Fir
Mesic VAME
Association
Cover
Constancy
TSME/VAME-XETE
24.0
100
TSME/VAME-RULA
3.0
95
TSME/VAME
40.8
100
TSME/RHAL-VAME
31.3
100
TSME/VAME-STRO
29.3
100
TSME/VAME-VASI
35.0
100
TSME/VAME-VAAL
25.8
100
TSME/RHAL-VAAL
13.5
100
Association
Cover
Constancy
ABAM/RHAL-VAME
16.3
100
ABAM/VAME-VASI
27.7
100
ABAM/VAME-XETE
8.3
100
ABAM/XETE
1.5
87
ABAM/VAME
24.0
100
ABAM/VAME-STRO
16.2
100
ABAM/ACTR
2.1
93
Acknowledgements
• South MBS Resource Advisory Committee
• Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
• University of Washington, Dept. of
Anthropology
• Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook
• Bill Ramos