Movie 8 West Coast Rainforest Part 2 June 13, 2009 uploaded November 10, 2009

West Coast Canada Temperate Rain Forest, Part 2 Introduction to a Rain Forest Series covering western Canada and United States. Sometimes known as the Pacific Northwest this area includes Alaska, British Columbia (Canada), Washington State, Oregon and Northern California. There are stands of deciduous hardwood - alder, oak, maple and others; albeit they are increasingly difficult to find. The major forest cover, however, are the evergreen, softwood forest species including Balsam (a fir), Western Red Cedar, Yellow Cedar, Fir, Hemlock, Pine, Spruce and others. These 'old growth', often up to 1,200 year old, forests have been under sever attack by clear-cut logging operations over the years and few intact ecosystems remain. Subsequent tree planting has largely been mono-culture (one species) forests and, at that, replanting was had not been a regular part of regular forestry practices until the latter half of the 1900s.

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