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A pine forest is an example of a temperate coniferous forest Forest communities dominated by huge trees (e.g., giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron gigantea ; redwood, Sequoia sempervirens ), unusual ecological phenomena, occur in western North America, southwestern South America, as well as in the Australasian region in such areas as southeastern ...
The Caledonian Forest is the ancient temperate forest of Scotland. The forest today is a reduced-extent version of the pre-human-settlement forest, existing in several dozen remnant areas . The Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the Late Glacial ; arriving about 7000 BC .
Approximately 4,700 km 2 of Scotland's forests and woodlands are publicly owned by the Scottish Government via Forestry and Land Scotland, and these are termed the National Forest Estate. [5] As of 2015, forestry contributed almost £1 billion to the Scottish economy, and the industry employed over 25,000 people. [6]
Map Photo PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests [Note 1] Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia PA0503 Caledonian conifer Forest: United Kingdom PA0504 Carpathian montane conifer forests [Note 1] Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine PA0520 Scandinavian coastal conifer forests: Norway
Major stands of southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest. The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest consists of several stands covering a combined area of between 60,000 and 70,000 acres (24,000 and 28,000 ha), [2] [6] although less conservative estimates have placed the forest's coverage at around 90,000 acres (36,000 ha). [7]
These forests are found predominantly in North and Central America and experience low levels of precipitation and moderate variability in temperature. Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests are characterized by diverse species of conifers , whose needles are adapted to deal with the variable climatic conditions. [ 1 ]
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
Carpathian montane conifer forests; Cascade Mountains leeward forests; Caucasus–Anatolian–Hyrcanian temperate forest; Central British Columbia Mountain forests;