TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight
TIL Washington State Is Preparing For a Powerful Megafire That Will Be Nearly Impossible To Fight
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While the current Bear Gultch fire is on the other side of the Olympics...
It would be a tragedy to lose the Hoh Rainforest, and the article mentions that it did burn some decades ago.
The Hoh Rainforest is one of ... only maybe three temperate rainforests on the planet, the vast majority of rainforests are tropical.
If you've seen the movie Prospect... you've seen it, much of it was filmed there.
Yeah, that's 3 trees growing out of a larger fallen tree, which itself is still alive, all covered in moss... where the moss isn't, and the trees appear black, that isn't a burn mark, its a layer of a kind of slimy mold or fungus... and of course, ferns, ferns everywhere.
I guess you would maybe describe it as the closest you can get in the real world to the twilight biome/dimension from minecraft...
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I was confused because what your describing sounds like large parts of New Zealand and Tasmania, so I checked Wikipedia which says:
Temperate rainforests occur in oceanic moist regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rainforests of North American Pacific Northwest as well as the Appalachian temperate rainforest in the Appalachian region of the United States; the Valdivian temperate rainforests of southwestern South America; the rainforests of New Zealand and southeastern Australia; northwest Europe (small pockets in Great Britain and larger areas in Ireland, southern Norway, northern Iberia and Brittany); southern Japan; the Black Sea–Caspian Sea region from the southeasternmost coastal zone of the Bulgarian coast, through Turkey, to Georgia, and northern Iran.
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Well shoot, my info/number there is wrong then, you are correct.
If you can't tell, I grew up in the area, and I was just regurgitating that figure I was taught almost 30 years ago... appears I've got a bit of hometown bias, out of date info, whoops.
I appreciate the correction!
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No problem, I appreciate your passion for temperate rain forests! Who doesn't love a good tree fern!
It's important to do what we can to protect them regardless, I say.
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I'm from this area originally, and photos of new Zealand always look kind of like home 🙂
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Pretty similar to coastal Maine too. Reading the headline immediately made me wonder if New England is preparing at all. They’ve been having brush fires the last few summers, along with air alerts from the Canadian smoke.
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Isn't there a temperate rain forest in the American Northeast? Saw a wild video where a guy hiked in, don't remember where. I was stunned that such a thing was up there!
Found it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_temperate_rainforest
Is that one of the 3?
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Contentedness pointed out that my 'one of three' figure is evidently an outdated figure, there are a good deal more than 3 of these 'temperate rainforest' climactic zones, but yes, I think the Appalachian temperate rainforest would be another one.
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While temperate rainforests are indeed special, they're not quite as uncommon as you state. There are 12 major temperate rainforest areas worldwide. And the one you mention, the Hoh, is part of a bigger rainforest system that stretches from Northern California all the way to Alaska. If you've ever been to Vancouver island, BCs Sunshine Coast, or Haida G'waii you'd be well aware of the expanse that the temperate rainforest encompasses . That said, we are both in agreement that it is both majestic and incredibly important ecosystem.
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