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To the west where the range over-shadows the Oregon Coast, the range causes more precipitation to fall on that side of the mountains, contributing to the numerous rivers that flow to the Pacific Ocean. Marys Peak in the Central Coast Range is the highest peak at 4,097 feet (1,248 m). Logging is a major industry in the range in both private and ...
The Coast Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California.It stretches along the Pacific Coast from the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the north to the San Francisco Bay in the south, including Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, the entire length of the ...
The level III ecoregions in Oregon are the Coast Range (1), Willamette Valley (3), Cascades (4), Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills (9), Columbia Plateau (10), Blue Mountains (11), Snake River Plain (12), Klamath Mountains (78), and Northern Basin and Range (80). (Compare to map of Level IV ecoregions.) This list of ecoregions in Oregon ...
A Sitka spruce tree logged near Newport in 1918. Red alder and sword fern in the Central Coast Range. A black-tailed deer.. The Oregon Coast Range is home to over 50 mammals, 100 species of birds, and nearly 30 reptiles or amphibians that spent a significant portion of their life cycle in the mountains.
Maple Valley is a city in King County, Washington United States. The population was 28,013 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The city functions as a commuter town for residents, though there is an increasing amount of commercial activity in the area.
The range begins around the Umpqua River with the Central Oregon Coast Range to the north. Oregon Route 38 is the general divide between the two sections. On the southern end the Coquille River 's middle fork provides the general dividing line between the Central Range and the Klamath Mountains to the south and east.
The Nehalem River is a river on the Pacific coast of northwest Oregon in the United States, approximately 119 miles (192 km) long.It drains part of the Northern Oregon Coast Range northwest of Portland, originating on the east side of the mountains and flowing in a loop around the north end of the range near the mouth of the Columbia River.
The valley is traversed by the Tualatin River and is bordered on the north and east by the Tualatin Mountains, a spur of the Northern Oregon Coast Range. [2] The latter range also comprises the valley's western border. To the south lie the Chehalem Mountains, separating the region from the main Willamette Valley. [2]