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A forest that is frequently flooded with relatively fresh water rich in minerals is referred to as a freshwater swamp forest. Since tropical freshwater swamp forests are a subset of tropical rainforests, they share a number of environmental traits with other tropical rainforest formations. [4] Beyond these shared characteristics, however, the ...
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest: 3,493 acres (14.14 km 2) Lake: Cobb: 1949 [1] Ellen Pickett State Forest: 160 acres (0.65 km 2) Trinity - [2] Jackson Demonstration State Forest: 48,652 acres (196.89 km 2) Mendocino: Fort Bragg: 1949 [3] Las Posadas State Forest: 796 acres (3.22 km 2) Napa: Angwin [2] LaTour Demonstration State Forest ...
Calaveras Big Trees State Park; California chaparral and woodlands; California interior chaparral and woodlands; California montane chaparral and woodlands; List of California state forests; Cascades (ecoregion) Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest; Central and Southern Cascades forests; Closed-cone conifer forest
This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest, containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world. [ 22 ] The redwood forests thrive in a thin belt up to 35 miles (56 km) wide next to the coast, where the trees are kept moist by winter rains and summer fog. [ 22 ]
Dead Stream Swamp, Michigan: a northern white cedar swamp. Coniferous swamps are forested wetlands in which the dominant trees are lowland conifers such as northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis). The soil in these swamp areas is typically saturated for most of the growing season and is occasionally inundated by seasonal storms or by winter ...
After numerous California wildfires ravaged the dense forests of California, officials there are set to remove over 10,000 trees after they were damaged by the flames, drought, disease, and age.
Plumas National Forest is a 1,146,000-acre (4,640 km 2) United States National Forest located at the northern terminus of the Sierra Nevada, in northern California. The Forest was named after its primary watershed, the Rio de las Plumas, or Feather River .
A forest of Monterey pines. A Closed-cone conifer forest or woodland is a plant community occurring in coastal California and several offshore islands. The forests typically have a single-aged single-species conifer overstory with dense ladder fuels.