The sausage is smoked using green vine maple wood. The understory contains plants such as Pacific yew, Pacific madrone, chinquapin, and vine maple. Shrubs such as vine maple and manzanita grow beneath the trees. Vine maple trees can bend over easily. Understory vegetation includes huckleberry, vine maple and rhododendron. Dense western hemlock, Douglas-fir are mixed with western red cedar, red alder, and vine maple. Important understory species are "Gaultheria shallon" (Salal) and "Acer circinatum" (Vine Maple). Much of the understory consists of vine maple, salal, and sword fern. Plants in the understory include vine maple, hazel, snowberry, and oceanspray.