Temperate rainforest once stretched from southern Oregon to southeast Alaska, providing wet, fertile soil, and abundant habitat for unique wildlife. Today these temperate rainforests have dwindled with little remaining outside of protected areas, but massive trees and expansive wildernesses can be found where they still exist.
A temperate rainforest sees tons of rainfall, sometimes up to 200 inches per year, but will experience a change of seasons unlike tropical rainforests closer to the equator. With cooler temperatures comes less diversity, but plenty of animals and plants still call these areas home.
Temperate rainforests can be found in North America, stretching from the United States into Canada, and in a few isolated sports around the world including Chile, New Zealand and southern Australia. But there’s only one temperate inland rainforest located around 250 miles from the ocean, and it’s located in northern Idaho and southern British Columbia.
