Using salal as mulch?

I live in western Washington on the north Olympic peninsula zone 8b. Our property is surrounded with doug fir, cedar and alder with a thick undergrowth of salal, Oregon grape and rhododendron. I would love to utilize what we have growing around us in our permaculture design and I'm wondering if anyone has used salal as a woody much for their garden/orchard?

Do I need to compost it first or can I just layer it over the top in the fall to over winter? Will the acidity of the plant interfere with our soil ph? I would love anyone's experience with this so we can utilize one of our most abundant resources!

Salal is such a tasty berry it seems like a waste to me to use it as a mulch. I've not tried, but the wood is pretty hard so unless it's new growth that hasn't hardened yet I suspect it would take a long while to break down and would remain brushy for a while. You might consider using it in a dead hedge though.

It also uses the same species of soil fungi as blueberries.

We do use the berries but we have about 7 acres of just salal. We want to clear out an acre or two to hopefully have livestock and it would be great to use what we pull up.
You're comment has made me think that I should throw it through our chipper and mulch our blueberries with it. Maybe that would work well for them!

Ok, 7 acres of salal is a lot!