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The Eastern Temperate Forests is a Level I ecoregion of North America designated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in its North American Environmental Atlas. The region covers much of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, the U.S. Interior Highlands, and parts of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes.
These forests stretch from eastern Texas and northern Florida to the Adirondacks and Wisconsin. For a general description of these forests, refer to Temperate Deciduous Forest. The standard reference is The Deciduous Forest of Eastern North America. [5] 52 Driftless Area (far northwestern Illinois) 52a - Savanna Section
This ecoregion contains a number of mountainous areas on the east coast of Canada and along the Saint Lawrence River in eastern Quebec (including Anticosti Island in the Saint Lawrence) and the coast up to near Labrador, on the island of Newfoundland, in the highlands of New Brunswick, and the Cape Breton Highlands on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
1990 USDA Hardiness zone map detail for the northeast US. Zone 3a is light orange, zone 4b is light lavender. The area is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome transition zone between the true boreal forest to the north and the Big Woods and Carolinian forest to the south, with characteristics of each.
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests: Canada: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests: United States: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern forest-boreal transition: Canada: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern forest-boreal ...
The World Wildlife Fund defines the ecoregion as being the northern part of the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests. [ citation needed ] The Environmental Protection Agency defines it as running from west-central Pennsylvania , east-central and south Ohio , north and northwest West Virginia , and a portion of northeast Kentucky .
Open forests of ponderosa pine and some lodgepole pine distinguish this region from the Cascades ecoregion, where hemlock and fir forests are more common, and from the lower, drier ecoregions to the east, where shrubs and grasslands are predominant. The vegetation is adapted to the prevailing dry, continental climate and frequent wildfire.
Upper slope hardwood–conifer mixed forests are an area of transition between the northern hardwood and the mountain conifer forests. They are similar to hardwood–conifer forests, but with no red maple. Red spruce and eastern hemlock, together with sugar maple, yellow birch, and American beech are the dominant species, with scattered white pine.