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A portion of the temperate rain forest region of North America, the largest area of temperate zone rainforests on the planet, is the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion, which occur on west-facing coastal mountains along the Pacific coast of North America, from Kodiak Island in Alaska to northern California, and are part of the Nearctic realm.
The task of defining and mapping these ecoregions was carried out by the Oregon Ecoregion Project, a collaborative effort involving the EPA, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the United States Forest Service (USFS), and other state and federal agencies. The new classification system they developed may differ from previous frameworks ...
The Central Pacific coastal forests stretch from the Chetco River in southwestern Oregon to the northern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.It differs from the Coast Range ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States in that it includes the entirety of Vancouver Island and excludes the coastal forests of Northern California.
Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific: Oregon, Washington, Vancouver coast and shelf: California: Temperate Northern Pacific: Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific: Oregon, Washington, Vancouver coast and shelf: Oregon: Temperate Northern Pacific: Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific: Oregon, Washington, Vancouver coast and shelf: Washington: Temperate ...
Pacific temperate rainforests have been subject to ongoing large-scale industrial logging since the end of World War II, cutting over half of their total area. In California, only 4% of the redwoods have been protected. In Oregon and Washington, less than 10% of the original coastal rainforest area remains.
Beazell Memorial Forest is a preserve of temperate rainforest ten miles (16 km) west of Corvallis, Oregon, United States in the Central Oregon Coast Range. The forest was donated to Benton County by Fred Beazell in 2000.
the Eastern Canadian temperate rainforest; the European rainforest relicts; and the Australasian temperate rainforest, including the Tasmanian temperate rainforest and temperate rainforests in Eastern Australia and New Zealand. [5] It has been started to be recognized as an “inland counterpart” of the coastal Pacific temperate rainforest ...
Temperate rain forests grow near the coast and are dominated by conifers Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii), Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), Grand fir, Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), Lawson's cypress (also known as Port Orford Cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), Pacific yew ...