 Lockyer's Waters and Hall’s Gullies on the Avalon Peninsula to the southeast, and Bay d'Espoir to the south, are three of the Newfoundland's most prolific rare lichen habitats, and are important for the conservation of "E. pedicellatum".Recently, populations were discovered in Denali area of Alaska, and in the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, increasing the known range of the species, and is the first time the species has been observed in the Pacific region.While little is known about the population in Russia, the Alaskan population has been projected to be able to increase the global population to about 100,000 individuals based on statistical modeling (ie.