Temperate Rain Forests

Some articles on temperate, forest, forests, temperate rain forests, rain forests, temperate rain forest:

Temperate Coniferous Forests
... Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome found in temperate regions of the world with warm summers and cool winters and adequate rainfall to sustain a forest ... In most temperate coniferous forests, evergreen conifers predominate, while some are a mix of conifers and broadleaf evergreen trees and/or broadleaf deciduous trees ... Temperate evergreen forests are common in the coastal areas of regions that have mild winters and heavy rainfall, or inland in drier climates or mountain areas ...
Temperate Rain Forest Regions By Continent - South America - Valdivian and Magellanic Temperate Rainforests
... The temperate rain forests of South America are located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile, on the west-facing slopes of the southern Chilean coast range, and the Andes Mountains in both Chile and ... Temperate rain forests occur in the Valdivian temperate rain forests and Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregions ... The Valdivian and Magellanic temperate rainforests are the only temperate rain forests in South America ...
Ecotrust - History and Programs
... founded in 1991 by Spencer Beebe, who brought his conservation experience in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America home to North America’s ... Ecotrust began by surveying temperate rain forests as a distinct ecoregion, an analysis that led the organization to identify British Columbia’s Kitlope River as the ... recognition for over 750,000 acres (3,000 km2) of temperate rain forest as Huchsduwachsdu Nuyem Jees (the Kitlope Heritage Conservancy Protected Area) ...
Temperate Rainforest - Temperate Rain Forest Regions By Continent - North America - Pacific Temperate Rain Forests
... A portion of the temperate rain forest region of North America, the largest area of temperate zone rain forests on the planet, is the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion which occur ... Maritime Ecozone by Environment Canada and as the Marine West Coast Forest and Northwestern Forested Mountains Level II ecoregions by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ... Sub-ecoregions of the Pacific temperate rain forest ecoregion as defined by the WWF include the Northern Pacific coastal forests, Queen Charlotte Islands ecoregion, Vancouver Island ...

Famous quotes containing the words forests, temperate and/or rain:

    “The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “Too much rain is not good,
    nor too much sun.
    Too much talking is not good,
    nor too much silence.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.