Perhumid Rainforest Ecoregion

Oct 25, 2016 (Last modified May 4, 2017)
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Landscape-Scale Conservation Plans

This ecoregion represents the transboundary region between Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, dominated by montane and coastal rainforest.

The Tongass National Forest Management Plan of 2016 provides a landscape scale perspective on conservation and management priorities on the National Forest, which covers a significant area in this region. This plan identifies a conservation design for old growth forest in National Forest lands.

In 2016, Audubon Alaska produced the Ecological Atlas of Southeast Alaska. This effort "compiled information from researchers and agencies to create 56 new maps that visualize the landscape of Southeast, from human uses such as airports and ferry routes to wildlife uses such as bird and salmon habitat."

The Atlas was built from the 2007 TNC Conservation Assessment and Resource Synthesis for The Coastal Forests and Mountains Ecoregion in the Tongass National Forest and Southeast Alaska. This effort includes an assessment and prioritization of resource values in the region.

Trout Unlimited identified the top 77 watersheds for salmon in an assessment in 2012.

Previous efforts at regional conservation assessment efforts include: The Rain Forests of Home by Ecotrust in 1995

Citation
North Pacific LCC Data Coordinator. 2016. Perhumid Rainforest Ecoregion. In: Data Basin. [First published in Data Basin on Oct 25, 2016; Last Modified on May 4, 2017; Retrieved on Jun 28, 2025] <https://databasin.org/articles/4decb11b19d0471f9ae180a50705d8e2/>

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North Pacific LCC Data Coordinator
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The North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative promotes development, coordination, and dissemination of science to inform landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of a changing climate and related stressors