Where is the most moss in Alaska? (Kenai: pictures, water)

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by blueflames50

lots of moss on the fish truck is so when CC shoots back the moss protects the truck!!! hahaha

Maybe so, if CC ever dares to get uppity enough to actually shoot back but so far he hasn't.

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Maybe so, if CC ever dares to get uppity enough to actually shoot back but so far he hasn't.

He's quiet the past few days!!! still at Jackson Barrett auction is he???

[heathen]

The OP mentioned the Hoh Rainforest in Washington. Honestly, I haven't found anywhere up here that has quite the character of that place, though my travels in southern southeast are very limited. The Hoh has a very long growing season, very little snow, an abundance of Big Leaf Maple (which have a symbiotic relationship with the moss), and lots of Roosevelt Elk whose browsing habits open up the forest floor and make it look like a park. If you're looking for other areas like that, the western coast of Vancouver Island is the place.


This is actually in the Quinault Valley, two drainages south of the Hoh (along Graves Creek Road), same difference.

[Teak]

Originally Posted by heathen

The OP mentioned the Hoh Rainforest in Washington. Honestly, I haven't found anywhere up here that has quite the character of that place, though my travels in southern southeast are very limited.

Wow. Yeah, seeing that photo I would be hard-pressed to say that Alaska has anything like that. That looks more like a cloud-rain-forest to me (heavy fog), a lot of epiphytes, bryophytes, etc.

Cloud forest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[heathen]

It's not always foggy there, but it is always wet. The longer growing season definetely gives it some different plant communities than the SE Alaska rainforest.



Ents live there too:

[nwcountrygal]

I don't know Alaska as an expert. My drive up from Washington last year to Seward missed the South Alaska. In my drive even the areas around Hyder AK in the very south didn't look like Hoh Rain Forest. It is a very look beautiful in it's own right. More ice and trees are not as big in Alaska, and lots of Tundra.

[ImAHobbit]

Ents? Like REAL ones?!!!

[Rance]

When I worked on Kuiu Island southeast AK, back in '79', that place was creepy with moss. You could walk silently through the woods across a blanket of moss that was a foot thick.

[malagagirl]

I've spent some time in the Hoh Rain Forest - GORGEOUS place.

You can read some basic information about moss in Alaska here: Moss of Alaska: Photos

Or, alternatively, the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides give some information how to address moss in your lawn here: Moss in Lawns (http://www.pesticide.org/pubs/alts/moss/mossinlawns.html - broken link)

According to Alaska in Pictures there is a moss carpet in the Katmai National Park Forest Moss Katmai National Park Alaska

But for something really more like the Hoh you'd probably like the Old Growth Forest on Kodiak Island
Accent Alaska Stock Images (http://www.accentalaska.com/lightbox/index/detail/55479 - broken link)

[Teak]

I did a survey once on the Kustatan wetlands, across Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula. There was spongy tundra that moved like a waterbed when I walked across it. Very cool. Each step sent a wave ahead of me, but I did not fear dropping through. It was earth, but so wet that it was like a big sponge.