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1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank)
2. REPORT DATE
3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED
October 1997
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5. FUNDING NUMBERS
A Floristic Inventory and Spatial Database for
Fort Wainwright, Interior Alaska
6. AUTHORS
Charles Racine, Robert Lichvar, Barbara Murray, Gerald Tande,
Robert Lipkin, and Michael Duffy
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION
REPORT NUMBER
Special Report 97-23
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and
Ecological Resources Division
Engineering Laboratory
U.S. Army Waterways
72 Lyme Road
Experiment Station
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSORING/MONITORING
AGENCY REPORT NUMBER
U.S. Army Integrated Training Area Management
U.S. Army Alaska, Fort Richardson
11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
12a. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161
13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words)
An inventory of the vascular and ground-inhabiting cryptogam flora of Fort Wainwright, in interior Alaska,
was conducted during the summer of 1995 to support land management needs related to the impact of training.
Primary plant collecting, identification and verification were conducted by the Alaska Natural Heritage Program
and the University of Alaska Museum. The work was supervised and the data compiled into a geographic infor-
mation system by the USA Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and the USA Waterways Experi-
ment Station.
Fort Wainwright covers 370,450 hectares (915,000 acres); it was divided into five areas: 1) the valleys of a canton-
ment area of base facilities, 2) the slopes and alpine areas of the YukonTanana Uplands, 3) Tanana Flats and
associated wetlands, 4) the upland buttes and Blair Lakes area in Tanana Flats, and 5) the floodplains of the Tanana
and Chena Rivers. Over 100 sites were visited, with habitats ranging from very dry south-facing slopes to forest,
floodplains, wetlands, and alpine tundra.
Vascular collections represented 491 species (including subspecies and varieties), included about 26% of Alaska's
vascular flora, and are considered to be relatively complete. The cryptogam collections included 219 species, rep-
resenting 92 mosses, 117 lichens, and 10 liverworts. The flora is characteristic of the circumpolar boreal forest and
wetlands of both North America and Eurasia, but it also contains alpine and dry-grassland and steppe species.
14. SUBJECT TERMS
15. NUMBER OF PAGES
75
Vascular plants
Alaska
Cryptogams
Inventory
16. PRICE CODE
Flora
Floristics
17. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
18. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
20. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT
OF REPORT
OF THIS PAGE
OF ABSTRACT
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Standard Form 298 (Rev. 2-89)
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