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Nome National Forest is a seasonal artificial forest in Nome, Alaska. Containing 100 trees on average, it is planted on the frozen Norton Sound in early February and stays until the ice starts to melt. Other than trees, it also contains about 50 animal figures made from plywood. Charlie Lean, a resident of the town and member of its Rotary Club ...
Southeast Alaska has an unusual climate that allows a large number of edible plant and edible mushroom species to grow. The area consists primarily of the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest. This rainforest has plenty of precipitation and the temperature remains relatively constant, therefore many plant and fungi species ...
Taiga in Alaska. The Taiga of North America is a Level I ecoregion of North America designated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in its North American Environmental Atlas. The taiga ecoregion includes much of interior Alaska as well as the Yukon forested area, and extends on the west from the Bering Sea to the Richardson ...
Nome, Alaska. Nome (/ ˈnoʊm /; (Inupiaq: Sitŋasuaq, pronounced [sitŋɐsuɑq], also Sitŋazuaq, Siqnazuaq)) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 recorded in the 2020 ...
02-67460. GNIS feature ID. 1409106. Savoonga is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska. It is located on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. As of the 2020 census, Savoonga's population was 835, up from 671 in 2010. Savoonga was incorporated in 1969.
Rubus spectabilis is a deciduous, rhizomatous shrub growing to 1–4 metres (3–13 feet) tall and 9 metres (30 feet) wide, with a moderate growth rate of 0.3–0.6 metres (12-24 inches) per year. [5] 30-40% of the plant's biomass is underground. [6] It has perennial (not biennial) woody stems that are covered with fine prickles, especially on ...
The climate in the extreme north of Alaska is what would be expected for an area north of the Arctic Circle. It is an Arctic climate (Köppen EF) with long, very cold winters and short, cool summers. The sun does not rise at all during some weeks in the winter, and is out for 24 hours during some weeks in the summer.
Alaska. Climate type. Subpolar oceanic (Cfc) Conservation. Conservation status. Relatively stable/intact [1] Protected. 40,413 km² (86%) [2] The Alaska Peninsula montane taiga is a taiga and boreal forests ecoregion, located in Alaska, and defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system.