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The WWF defines the ecoregion as inhabiting mainland coasts and islands of the Georgia Depression, a glacially depressed area dominated by the Salish Sea and numerous inflowing rivers. This differs from the Strait of Georgia/Puget Lowland ecoregion defined by the CEC in that it explicitly excludes the lowlands along the east coast of Vancouver ...
2 Puget Lowland; 3 Willamette Valley; 111 Ahklun Mountains and Kilbuck Mountains; 113 Alaska Peninsula Mountains; 115 Cook Inlet; 119 Pacific Coastal Mountains; 120 Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests; The corresponding CEC ecoregion in Canada is called the Pacific Maritime Ecozone.
Alaska is the most biodiverse state with 15 ecoregions across three biomes in the same realm. California comes in a close second with 13 ecoregions across four biomes in the same realm. By contrast, Rhode Island is the least biodiverse with just one ecoregion—the Northeastern coastal forests —encompassing the entire state.
Geologists have found evidence that at least 11 large lahars from Mount Rainier have reached into the surrounding area, known as the Puget Lowlands, in the past 6,000 years, Moran said.
The Chuckanuts are considered to be a part of the Puget Lowland Forest Ecoregion. The range contains Larrabee State Park, the first State Park to be designated in Washington (1923). Its mountains include: Anderson Mountain; Blanchard Mountain; Chuckanut Mountain (including North Chuckanut Mountain, South Chuckanut Mountain, and Chuckanut Ridge)
The Cascades is bordered on the north by the North Cascades ecoregion, on the south by the Klamath Mountains ecoregion, on the east by the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills, and on the west by the Willamette Valley and Puget Lowland ecoregions. It been subdivided into six Level IV ecoregions in Washington and Oregon, as described below ...
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 ...
Sections of the Puget Lowland area, which includes most of Lewis County and the Interstate 5 corridor, are forecast to see 1.3 to 3 inches of rain on Monday and Tuesday, the Flood Watch states. ...