Oregon's Temperate Rainforests

The rainforests of the Hoh River valley on Washington's Olympic Peninsula sit just across the border from Oregon, but Oregon's own Coast Range contains temperate rainforests that receive up to 100 inches of rain per year, making parts of the Oregon coast among the wettest places in the contiguous United States. Oregon's forests contain some of the largest trees on earth by volume, including individual Douglas firs and Sitka spruces over 300 feet tall and thousands of years old. The state's timber industry shaped both the economy and the environmental politics of the Pacific Northwest for over a century.

Source: U.S. Forest Service