Tillamook Rainforest

Tillamook Rainforest

The Tillamook Rainforest is a temperate rainforest located in the Coast Range of northwestern Oregon, United States, between Hillsboro and Tillamook in Washington and Tillamook counties.

Part of the forest is administered in the Tillamook State Forest.

Geography and climate

The Tillamook Rainforest is one of the wettest areas of the United States, with parts getting more than convert|100|in|mm of rain.Fact|date=January 2008 The higher elevations also receive a lot of snow. [http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/wildoregon/tillamook_links.asp]

The western part of the forest has coastal varieties of trees, while the east is dominated by Douglas-fir. Much of the forest is young, as early deforestation was rampantFact|date=January 2008 and the Tillamook Burn, a large wildfire, passed through the area in 1933. [http://biologicaldiversity.org/publications/papers/TillamookReport.pdf]

ee Also

*Siuslaw Rainforest

External links

* [http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/wildoregon/tillamook_links.asp The Tillamook Rainforest - Sierra Club]


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