Pacific temperate rainforests, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 92 relations: Acer macrophyllum, Alaska, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alder, American black bear, American bullfrog, American shrew mole, Bald eagle, Banana slug, Biomass, Black slug, Black-tailed deer, British Columbia Coast, British Columbia mainland coastal forests, Broad-leaved tree, Canada, Canopy (biology), Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, Cascades (ecoregion), Cascadia (bioregion), Central Pacific coastal forests, Conifer, Cook Inlet, Coyote, Cretaceous, Douglas fir, Ecoregion, Ensatina, Epiphyte, Fern, Flowering plant, Great Bear Rainforest, Grizzly bear, Gulf of Alaska, Gull, Haida Gwaii, Hardwood, Ice age, Ice sheet, Invertebrate, Jurassic, Kenai Fjords National Park, Ketchikan Pulp Company, Klamath Mountains (ecoregion), Kodiak Island, List of superlative trees, Logging, Marbled murrelet, Moose, Moss, ... Expand index (42 more) »

2. Coast of British Columbia
3. Ecoregions of Alaska
4. Ecoregions of California
5. Ecoregions of Canada
6. Ecozones and ecoregions of British Columbia
7. Forests of Alaska
8. Forests of British Columbia
9. Forests of California
10. Forests of Oregon
11. Forests of Washington (state)
12. Plant communities of California
13. Plant communities of the West Coast of the United States
14. Plants by habitat
15. Temperate Northern Pacific
16. Temperate coniferous forests of the United States
17. Temperate rainforests

Acer macrophyllum

Acer macrophyllum, the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus Acer.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

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Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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American bullfrog

The American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus), often simply known as the bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is a large true frog native to eastern North America.

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American shrew mole

The American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii) is the smallest species of mole.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Banana slug

Banana slugs (Ariolimax) are a genus of North American terrestrial slugs in the family Ariolimacidae.

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Biomass

Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.

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Black slug

The black slug (also known as black arion, European black slug, or large black slug), Arion ater, is a large terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round back slugs.

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Black-tailed deer

Two forms of black-tailed deer or blacktail deer that occupy coastal woodlands in the Pacific Northwest of North America are subspecies of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus).

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British Columbia Coast

The British Columbia Coast, popularly referred to as the BC Coast or simply the Coast, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Pacific temperate rainforests and British Columbia Coast are coast of British Columbia.

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British Columbia mainland coastal forests

British Columbia mainland coastal forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion the Pacific coast of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. Pacific temperate rainforests and British Columbia mainland coastal forests are Ecozones and ecoregions of British Columbia, forests of British Columbia, forests of Washington (state) and Nearctic ecoregions.

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Broad-leaved tree

A broad-leaved, broad-leaf, or broadleaf tree is any tree within the diverse botanical group of angiosperms that has flat leaves and produces seeds inside of fruits.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park

Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, originally Carmanah Pacific Provincial Park, is a remote wilderness park located inside traditional Ditidaht First Nation (also spelled diiɁdiitidq) ancestral territory.

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Cascades (ecoregion)

The Cascades ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California. Pacific temperate rainforests and Cascades (ecoregion) are ecoregions of California, forests of California, forests of Oregon, forests of Washington (state), Nearctic ecoregions, plant communities of the West Coast of the United States and temperate coniferous forests of the United States.

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Cascadia (bioregion)

The concept of Cascadian bioregionalism is closely identified with the environmental movement. Pacific temperate rainforests and Cascadia (bioregion) are ecoregions of Canada, ecoregions of the United States and Flora of the Northwestern United States.

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Central Pacific coastal forests

The Central Pacific coastal forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system. Pacific temperate rainforests and Central Pacific coastal forests are ecoregions of Canada, ecoregions of the United States and Nearctic ecoregions.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Cook Inlet

Cook Inlet (Tikahtnu; Sugpiaq: Cungaaciq) stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Douglas fir

The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

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Ensatina

The ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii) is a species complex of plethodontid (lungless) salamanders found in coniferous forests, oak woodland and chaparral San Diego Field Station, United States Geological Survey Viewed: April 24, 2005, Last updated: March 05, 2003 from British Columbia, through Washington, Oregon, across California (where all seven subspecies variations are located), all the way down to Baja California in Mexico.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Fern

The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.

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Great Bear Rainforest

The Great Bear Rainforest is a temperate rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, comprising 6.4 million hectares. Pacific temperate rainforests and Great Bear Rainforest are forests of British Columbia.

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Grizzly bear

The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America. Pacific temperate rainforests and grizzly bear are Fauna of the Northwestern United States.

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Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch’) is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found. Pacific temperate rainforests and Gulf of Alaska are temperate Northern Pacific.

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Gull

Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.

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Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii (X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people"), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice sheet

In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Kenai Fjords National Park

Kenai Fjords National Park is an American national park that comprises the Harding Icefield, its outflowing glaciers, and coastal fjords and islands.

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Ketchikan Pulp Company

Ketchikan Pulp Company was a pulp mill located on the north shore of Ward Cove, from Ketchikan, in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Klamath Mountains (ecoregion)

The Klamath Mountains ecoregion of Oregon and California lies inland and north of the Coast Range ecoregion, extending from the Umpqua River in the north to the Sacramento Valley in the south. Pacific temperate rainforests and Klamath Mountains (ecoregion) are ecoregions of California and ecoregions of the United States.

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Kodiak Island

Kodiak Island (Qikertaq, Кадьяк) is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait.

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List of superlative trees

The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor.

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Logging

Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.

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Marbled murrelet

The marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a small seabird from the North Pacific.

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Moose

The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.

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Moss

Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.

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Mouse

A mouse (mice) is a small rodent.

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Nearctic realm

The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Nitrogen fixation

Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen is converted into ammonia.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Northern California

Northern California (commonly shortened to NorCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, spanning the northernmost 48 of the state's 58 counties.

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Northern California coastal forests

The Northern California coastal forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of coastal Northern California and southwestern Oregon. Pacific temperate rainforests and Northern California coastal forests are ecoregions of California, forests of California, Nearctic ecoregions, plant communities of California, plants by habitat and temperate coniferous forests of the United States.

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Northern Pacific coastal forests

The Northern Pacific coastal forests are temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of the Pacific coast of North America. Pacific temperate rainforests and Northern Pacific coastal forests are ecoregions of Alaska, Ecozones and ecoregions of British Columbia, forests of Alaska, forests of British Columbia, Nearctic ecoregions, plant communities of the West Coast of the United States and temperate coniferous forests of the United States.

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Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park is a United States national park located in the State of Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula. Pacific temperate rainforests and Olympic National Park are forests of Washington (state).

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Opossum

Opossums are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia endemic to the Americas.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Picea sitchensis

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).

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Pinus contorta

Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America.

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Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound (Sugpiaq: Suungaaciq) is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii

Pseudotsuga menziesii var. Pacific temperate rainforests and Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii are coast of British Columbia.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

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Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

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Redwood National and State Parks

The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one national park and three California state parks located in the United States along the coast of northern California. Pacific temperate rainforests and Redwood National and State Parks are temperate rainforests.

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Roadless area conservation

Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land.

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Roosevelt elk

The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known commonly as the Olympic elk and Roosevelt's wapiti, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirensSunset Western Garden Book, 1995: 606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Pacific temperate rainforests and Sequoia sempervirens are Flora of Oregon.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.

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Sitka deer

The Sitka deer or Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) is a subspecies of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), similar to the Columbian black-tailed subspecies (O. h. colombianus).

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Species richness

Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region.

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Spirit bear

The spirit bear, sometimes called the kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), is a subspecies of the American black bear and lives in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada.

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Spotted owl

The spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) is a species of true owl.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain. Pacific temperate rainforests and temperate rainforest are temperate rainforests.

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Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.

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Tongass National Forest

The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the largest U.S. National Forest at.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator.

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Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California.

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Pacific temperate rainforests and Vancouver Island are coast of British Columbia.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Western United States

The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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40th parallel north

The 40th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 40 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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60th parallel north

The 60th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees north of Earth's equator.

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See also

Coast of British Columbia

• BC Ferries
• British Columbia Coast
• British Columbia Highway 101
• Burrard Inlet
• Cadborosaurus
• Central Coast of British Columbia
• Clover Point
• Coast Mountains
• Deadman's Island (Vancouver)
• Desolation Sound
• Discovery Island Marine Provincial Park
• English Bay, Vancouver
• Explorer Ridge
• Gulf of Georgia Cannery
• Indian Arm
• Inside Passage
• Insular Belt
• John Thomas Walbran
• Labouchere (paddle steamer)
• List of World War II-era fortifications on the British Columbia Coast
• List of canneries in British Columbia
• Magic Mountain (British Columbia)
• Marius Barbeau
• North Coast of British Columbia
• Pacific Ranges
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Pig War (1859)
• Pineapple Express
• Potlatch
• Prince of Wales Reach
• Princess Royal Reach
• Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii
• Queen Charlotte Basin
• Queen Charlotte Fault
• Queens Reach
• Saysutshun (Newcastle Island Marine) Park
• South Coast of British Columbia
• Trial Islands (British Columbia)
• Vancouver Island
• Wakashan languages
• Wrangellia Terrane

Ecoregions of Alaska

• Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
• Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra
• Arctic coastal tundra
• Arctic foothills tundra
• Beringia lowland tundra
• Beringia upland tundra
• Brooks–British Range tundra
• Cook Inlet taiga
• Copper Plateau taiga
• Interior Alaska–Yukon lowland taiga
• Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra
• Pacific temperate rainforests

Ecoregions of California

• California Central Valley grasslands
• California chaparral and woodlands
• California coastal prairie
• California coastal sage and chaparral
• California interior chaparral and woodlands
• California montane chaparral and woodlands
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Coast Range (EPA ecoregion)
• Coastal sage scrub
• Colorado Desert
• Death Valley freshwater ecoregion
• Klamath Mountains (ecoregion)
• List of ecoregions in California
• Mediterranean California
• Mojave Desert
• Northern Basin and Range ecoregion
• Northern California coastal forests
• Oregon & Northern California Coastal
• Oregon Lakes
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Sacramento–San Joaquin
• Sierra Nevada subalpine zone
• Sierra Nevada upper montane forest
• Snake–Columbia shrub steppe
• Southern California Coastal–Baja California

Ecoregions of Canada

• Allegheny Highlands forests
• Baffin coastal tundra
• Beech–maple forest
• Carolinian forest
• Cascadia (bioregion)
• Central Canadian Shield forests
• Central Pacific coastal forests
• Davis Highlands tundra
• Eastern Canadian Boreal Forests
• Eastern Canadian Shield taiga
• Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
• Eastern Temperate Forests
• Ecozones of Canada
• Great Plains ecoregion
• Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
• High Arctic tundra
• Hudson Plains Ecoregion
• Interior Yukon–Alaska alpine tundra
• Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
• List of ecoregions in Canada (WWF)
• List of ecoregions in North America (CEC)
• Low Arctic tundra
• Marine West Coast Forest
• Mid-Canada Boreal Plains Forests
• Middle Arctic tundra
• Midwest Canadian Shield Forests
• New England–Acadian forests
• Newfoundland Highland forests
• North American Prairies Province
• Northern Canadian Shield taiga
• Northern Shortgrass Prairie
• Northern hardwood forest
• Northwestern Forested Mountains
• Ogilvie–MacKenzie alpine tundra
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Rock Glen Conservation Area
• Southern Hudson Bay taiga
• Tallgrass prairie
• Torngat Mountain tundra
• Western Great Lakes forests

Ecozones and ecoregions of British Columbia

• Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra
• Alberta–British Columbia foothills forests
• Biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia
• Boreal Cordillera
• Boreal Mountains and Plateaus Ecoregion
• Boreal Plains Ecozone (CEC)
• British Columbia mainland coastal forests
• Cascade Mountains leeward forests
• Central British Columbia Mountain forests
• Ecology of the North Cascades
• Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
• Lower Mainland Ecoregion
• Montane Cordillera
• Muskwa–Slave Lake Taiga
• North Central Rockies forests
• Northern Cordillera forests
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Northern transitional alpine forests
• Okanagan dry forests
• Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
• Pacific Marine Ecozone (CEC)
• Pacific Maritime Ecozone (CEC)
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Puget lowland forests
• Taiga Plains Ecozone (CEC)
• Yukon Interior dry forests

Forests of Alaska

• Adak National Forest
• Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
• Cook Inlet taiga
• Copper Plateau taiga
• Interior Alaska–Yukon lowland taiga
• Nome National Forest
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Pacific temperate rainforests

Forests of British Columbia

• Alberta–British Columbia foothills forests
• Aspen parkland
• British Columbia mainland coastal forests
• Cascade Mountains leeward forests
• Central British Columbia Mountain forests
• Deforestation in British Columbia
• Elkington Forest
• Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
• Great Bear Rainforest
• Inland rainforest
• Lower Mainland Ecoregion
• Malcolm Knapp Research Forest
• Muskwa–Slave Lake Taiga
• North Central Rockies forests
• Northern Cordillera forests
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Northern transitional alpine forests
• Okanagan dry forests
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Puget lowland forests

Forests of California

• Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
• Arcata Community Forest
• Atwell Mill Grove
• Belknap Complex
• Calaveras Big Trees State Park
• California chaparral and woodlands
• California interior chaparral and woodlands
• California mixed evergreen forest
• California montane chaparral and woodlands
• California oak woodland
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest
• Closed-cone conifer forest
• Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
• Elfin Forest Natural Area
• Garcia River Forest
• Giant Forest
• Giant Sequoia National Monument
• Headwaters Forest Reserve
• King Range Wilderness
• Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
• List of California state forests
• List of giant sequoia groves
• Mariposa Grove
• Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest
• Mediterranean California lower montane black oak–conifer forest
• Monterey County reforestation
• Mountain Home Grove
• Muir Grove
• Muir Woods National Monument
• Northern California coastal forests
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Placer County Big Trees Grove
• Ponderosa pine forest
• Redwood Grove
• San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge
• Sanctuary Forest
• Sequoia National Forest
• Teakettle Experimental Forest
• Tuolumne Grove

Forests of Oregon

• Andrews Forest
• Beazell Memorial Forest
• Cascade Head
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands
• Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
• Forest Park (Portland, Oregon)
• H. B. Van Duzer Forest State Scenic Corridor
• Lost Forest Research Natural Area
• Mediterranean California lower montane black oak–conifer forest
• Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Valley of the Giants (Oregon)

Forests of Washington (state)

• Anacortes Community Forest Lands
• British Columbia mainland coastal forests
• Cascade Mountains leeward forests
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
• Goat Marsh Research Natural Area
• Hoh Rainforest
• Lake Washington sunken forests
• North Central Rockies forests
• North Creek Forest
• Okanagan dry forests
• Olympic National Park
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Puget lowland forests
• Quinault Rain Forest
• Wind River Experimental Forest

Plant communities of California

• Alkali sink
• Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
• Blackbush scrub
• Butterfly Valley Botanical Area
• California Floristic Province
• California chaparral and woodlands
• California coastal prairie
• California coastal sage and chaparral
• California coastal salt marsh
• California interior chaparral and woodlands
• California mixed evergreen forest
• California montane chaparral and woodlands
• California oak woodland
• Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest
• Chaparral
• Closed-cone conifer forest
• Coastal sage scrub
• Coastal strand
• Desert dry wash
• Desert riparian
• Ecology of California
• Ecology of the Sierra Nevada
• Flora of the Sierra Nevada alpine zone
• List of giant sequoia groves
• Madrean Region
• Maritime coast range ponderosa pine forest
• Mediterranean California lower montane black oak–conifer forest
• Montara Mountain
• Northern California coastal forests
• Northern coastal scrub
• Oak savanna
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Pinyon–juniper woodland
• Rocky Mountain Floristic Region
• Sagebrush steppe
• Saltbush scrub
• Serpentine soil
• Shadscale scrub

Plant communities of the West Coast of the United States

• Cascade Mountains leeward forests
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Coast Range (EPA ecoregion)
• Coastal sage scrub
• Coastal strand
• Mediterranean California lower montane black oak–conifer forest
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Northern coastal scrub
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Rocky Mountain Floristic Region
• Tinaja
• Willamette Valley (ecoregion)

Plants by habitat

• Alpine flora
• Alpine plant
• Aquatic plants
• Camas prairie
• Canebrake
• Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest
• Chaparral
• Coastal strand
• Desert flora
• List of wetland plants
• Northern California coastal forests
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Purple moor grass and rush pastures
• Renosterveld
• Sagebrush steppe
• Terrestrial plant
• Understory

Temperate Northern Pacific

• Aleutian Islands
• California Current
• East China Sea
• Gulf of Alaska
• Gulf of California
• Japanese temperate rainforest
• Magdalena Transition
• North American Pacific Fjordland
• Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast Mangroves
• Oyashio Current
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Sea of Japan
• Sea of Okhotsk
• Southern California Bight
• Temperate Northern Pacific
• Temperate rainforests of the Russian Far East
• Yellow Sea

Temperate coniferous forests of the United States

• Appalachian temperate rainforest
• Arizona Mountains forests
• Atlantic coastal pine barrens
• Austroriparian
• Blue Mountains (ecoregion)
• Cascade Mountains leeward forests
• Cascades (ecoregion)
• Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest
• Colorado Rockies forests
• Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
• Florida scrub
• Great Basin montane forests
• Long Island Central Pine Barrens
• Malpai Borderlands
• North Central Rockies forests
• Northern California coastal forests
• Northern Pacific coastal forests
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Piney Woods
• Ponderosa pine forest
• Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forest
• Sierra Nevada lower montane forest
• Sierra Nevada upper montane forest
• South Central Rockies forests
• Southeastern conifer forests
• Southern Appalachian low-elevation pine forest
• Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest
• Wasatch and Uinta montane forests

Temperate rainforests

• Appalachian temperate rainforest
• Balkan temperate rainforests
• Caledonian Forest
• Celtic rainforests in Wales
• Cloud forest
• Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
• Dolmelynllyn Estate
• Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
• Hyrcanian forests
• Inland rainforest
• Japanese temperate rainforest
• Magellanic moorland
• Magellanic subpolar forests
• North American inland temperate rainforest
• Pacific temperate rainforests
• Rainforest in Victoria
• Redwood National and State Parks
• Southern Siberian rainforest
• Tasmanian temperate rainforests
• Temperate rainforest
• Temperate rainforests of the Russian Far East
• Valdivian temperate forests
• Westland temperate forests

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_temperate_rainforests

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