REINDEER IN ALASKA. 
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Table 1. 
-Summary of principal forage types occurring on the coast reindeer 
range between Nunivak Island and Kotzebue Sound. 
Type. 
Subtype. 
Average 
forage 
value. 1 
Distribution. 
5.00 
5.25 
5.50 
4.25 
6.00 
5.70 
6.35 
4.95 
3.20 
3.20 
3.90 
2.50 
4.45 
3.50 
5.40 
4.00 
5.00 
3.00 
Ridges and interior hills; fall and winter range. 
Do 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do 
Grass 
Do. 
Tundra types — on flats, benches, and lower slopes; 
summer and fall range. 
Do. 
Do 
Browse 
Do 
Do. 
Do 
Grass 
Do. 
Along rivers and creeks. 
Do 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do 
Do. 
Browse 
Slopes and ridges; summer range. 
Do 
Do. 
Do 
Do. 
Over relatively small areas on sandy spits; coast 
types of summer range. 
Do. 
Do 
Do. 
1 Derived by multiplying the percentage of density of forage stand by the percentage of palatable plants . 
Table 2. — Summary of principal forage types occurring on some of the far in- 
terior reindeer ranges, particularly over the Broad Pass, Gulkana, and Tangle 
Lakes region. 
Type. 
Subtype. 
Average 
forage 
value. 1 
Distribution. 
5. 75 
6.50 
4.80 
6.00 
6.40 
6.50 
6.15 
6.65 
6.85 
5.40 
Do 
Browse 
Ridges, upper slopes and benches, and glacial 
canyons. 
Upper steep slopes. 
Foothills of upper drainages. 
Do 
Do 
Browse, weed 
Browse 
Do 
Lower ridges and slopes, and shallow draws of 
benchlands. 
Old burns, and in open parks in timber. 
Lower slopes. 
Do 
. Do 
Weed 
Lichen 
Browse 
Along draws and around lakes. 
Dferived as in Table 1. 
FORAGE GRAZED BY REINDEER. 
A complete list of the range forage plants observed and collected 
on the reindeer ranges in Alaska will be found on pages TO to 74. 
The forage plants observed to be grazed by the reindeer during both 
summer and winter on the coast ranges are summarized in Tables 
3 and 4, in which the species are grouped according to the propor- 
tions they form of the forage eaten, those in the " first series ''' being 
most generally used ; the " second series " being next in importance ; 
and the " third series " those which are grazed only incidentally. 
The forage in the first series is of generally high palatability and 
the most extensively grazed, not only because of this but because of 
