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.
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and I was just regurgitating that figure I was taught almost 30 years ago… appears I’ve got a bit of hometown bias, out of date info, whoops.
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.
I was confused because what your describing sounds like large parts of New Zealand and Tasmania, so I checked Wikipedia which says:
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and I was just regurgitating that figure I was taught almost 30 years ago… appears I’ve got a bit of hometown bias, out of date info, whoops.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!
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.
I’m from this area originally, and photos of new Zealand always look kind of like home 🙂
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.