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Raspberry Island (Russian: Малиновый) is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago located in the Gulf of Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located two miles northwest of Whale Island, and just across the mile-wide Raspberry Strait from the southwestern end of Afognak. [1]
L. parvifolia, or pink mountain berry, also has a different distribution to L. oxycedrus, as it typically occurs in subalpine areas at elevations of 500-600m but can be found up to 1200m. [6] [7] [13] It typically inhabits rocky slopes of hills and mountains. [13] L. parvifolia is also smaller in height, usually growing to less than 2m.
Barometer Mountain is located six miles (9.7 km) southwest of Kodiak on the northeast coast of Kodiak Island. [4] It ranks as the 10th-highest peak on the island, [1] and it is considered Kodiak's most popular mountain. [5] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains north into Buskin Lake, east to the Buskin River, and south to Devils Creek.
Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park has been owned and operated by Ohio-based Cedar Fair since 1997. The company plans to merge with Six Flags, operator of Magic Mountain in Valencia.
Vaccinium erythrocarpum, commonly known as southern mountain cranberry or bearberry, more rarely as mountain blueberry or dingleberry, [1] is a deciduous flowering shrub native to the Southeastern United States.
Kodiak is an important environmental asset, which affects the fishing industry, particularly salmon fishing. Its wild game is coveted by hunters worldwide for the Kodiak bear and other game animals; there are strict laws governing fishing and hunting activities as well as hiking near spawning streams.
It is an epigynous berry, with the majority of the flesh of the fruit being composed of the fleshy calyx. The plant is a calcifuge, favoring acidic soil, in pine or hardwood forests, although it generally produces fruit only in sunnier areas. [5] It often grows as part of the heath complex in an oak–heath forest. [6] [7] [8]
Myrica rubra is an evergreen tree that grows to a height of up to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. Leaves are leathery, bare, elliptic-obovate to oval lanceolate in shape, wedge-shaped at the base and rounded to pointed or tapered at the apex, margin is serrated or serrated in the upper half, with a length of 5–14 cm (2.0–5. ...