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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 ...
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology , physiography , vegetation , climate , soils , land use , wildlife distributions, and hydrology .
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.)
The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest, containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world. [22]
Marine West Coast Forest; Mediterranean California; Middle Atlantic coastal forests; Mississippi Alluvial Plain (ecoregion) Mississippi lowland forests; Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (ecoregion) Mojave Basin and Range (ecoregion) Mojave Desert; Montana valley and foothill grasslands
Coast Range, Coastal Range or Coast Mountains may refer to: Pacific Coast Ranges of North America California Coast Ranges; Coast Mountains, often referred to as the Coast Range, a major mountain range in British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon; Olympic Mountains in Washington; Oregon Coast Range; Willapa Hills in Washington, an extension of the ...
By contrast, Rhode Island is the least biodiverse with just one ecoregion—the Northeastern coastal forests—encompassing the entire state. [ 1 ] The terrestrial ecoregions of the 50 states of the United States are as follows:
The Great Basin Desert is the only Cold desert, bordered by the Rocky Mountain range to the east, and the Sierra Nevada – Cascade to the west. The northernmost part of the desert lies 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above sea level, and due to high summer temperatures, not all of the fallen precipitation is fully absorbed into the soil, resulting in ...