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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:41, 22 July 2019: 5,100 × 6,300 (2.34 MB): TimK MSI {{Information |description ={{en|1=Map of Level III and Level IV ecoregions in the Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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 Columbia River Estuary is situated on the Oregon–Washington border and the Pacific Coast of the United States. It was traditionally inhabited by the Chinook Native Americans and discovered by settlers in 1788. The Estuary plays host to a plethora of species of marine and terrestrial flora and fauna, and multiple conservation organisations ...
The classification system has four levels. Only the first three levels are shown on this list. "Level I" divides North America into 15 broad ecoregions. "Level II" subdivides the continent into 52 smaller ecoregions. "Level III" subdivides those regions again into 182 ecoregions. [1] [2] "Level IV" is a further subdivision of Level III ...
Ecoregions of North America, featuring the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories. The following is a list of ecoregions in the United States as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The United States is a megadiverse country with a high level of endemism across a wide variety of ecosystems.
Black bear on Old Rag Mountain. The World Wildlife Fund defines four ecoregions in Virginia: Middle Atlantic coastal forests near the Atlantic coast in the southeast corner of the state, Southeastern mixed forests on the Piedmont, Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests on the Appalachian Mountains, and Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests in the far west.
Left tributary Right tributary Length (km) Basin size (km 2) . Average discharge (m 3 /s) . Lower Columbia. Mouth to Bonneville Dam. Youngs: 43 257.6 14.7 Grays: 48 320 15.9 Elochoman
Central Great Plains (ecoregion) Central Oklahoma/Texas Plains (ecoregion) Central Pacific coastal forests; Central Polynesian tropical moist forests; Central tall grasslands; Central U.S. hardwood forests; Chihuahuan Desert; Coast Range (EPA ecoregion) Colorado Plateau shrublands; Colorado Rockies forests; Columbia Plateau (ecoregion) Cross ...