Southeast Alaska is a temperate rain forest within the Pacific temperate rain forest zone, as classified by the World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion system, which extends from northern California to Prince William Sound.

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

The terrain is marked by numerous small lakes and swamps, and a mixed forest zone covers almost 33 % of the country.

Hillside vegetation is limited to scrub forest and the area functions as a deserted buffer zone allowing the development of distinctive cultures in valleys and hills further north.

) Both the forest zone and the savannah zone are divided into three parts.

The Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province.

Geographers traditionally divide the vast territory of Russia into five natural zones: the tundra zone ; the taiga, or forest, zone ; the steppe, or plains, zone ; the arid zone ; and the mountain zone.

In the wet zone, the dominant vegetation of the lowlands is a tropical evergreen forest, with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers.

In the wet zone, the dominant vegetation of the lowlands is a tropical evergreen forest, with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers.

In Canada, Scandinavia and Finland, the boreal forest is usually divided into three subzones: The high boreal ( north boreal ) or taiga zone ; the middle boreal ( closed forest ); and the southern boreal, a closed canopy boreal forest with some scattered temperate deciduous trees among the conifers, such as maple, elm and oak.

The zone of latitude occupied by the boreal forest has experienced some of the greatest temperature increases on Earth, especially during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Laszlo places its origin in the forest zone between the Oka River and central Poland.

The Kru people and their languages, although now many speak English as a second language, are said to be “ dominant in the southwest region where the forest zone reaches the coastal lagoons ”.

Archaeological work also suggests that central Ghana north of the forest zone was inhabited as early as 3, 000 to 4, 000 years ago.

The growth of trade stimulated the development of early Akan states located on the trade route to the goldfields, in the forest zone of the south.

The Sahel states were limited from expanding south into the forest zone of the Ashanti and Yoruba as mounted warriors were all but useless in the forests and the horses and camels could not survive the heat and diseases of the region.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant ; although some group the two African species into one and some researchers also postulate the existence of a fourth species in West Africa.

The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.

The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.

Other members of the same genus include yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Kyasanur forest disease virus, and Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus.

The subspecies is separated by over and the Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna that divides the forest regions of West Africa.

There is a program to bring American chestnut back to the Eastern forest and funded by the American Chestnut Foundation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, University of West Virginia, Michigan State University, and Cornell University.

Forests are also among the most significant assets of the oblast: about 20 % of the West Siberian forest resources are located in Tomsk Oblast.

Although the largest concentration of trees is now found on the West Coast of the South Island, the biggest trees tend to be in mixed podocarp forest near Taupo ( e. g., Pureora, Waihaha, and Whirinaki Forests ).

* After about 1900, public demand led the federal government to fight forest fires in the American West, and set aside land as national forests and parks to protect them from fires.

The actor Robert Bray, who portrayed forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie from 1964 – 1968 and Simon Kane in ABC's Stagecoach West from 1960 – 1961, retired to Bishop, where he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-five.

In 1961 the Lake County Forest Preserve District announced its plan for a new forest preserve on Kildeer property bounded by West Cuba Road, Quentin Road and Rand Road or what is now known as Pine Valley subdivision.

These would often have a religious underpinning — for example the ' evil forest ' areas of West Africa were forbidden to humans, who were threatened with spiritual attack if they went there.

Along the border of the state forest lies Martha's Vineyard Airport, which Edgartown shares with West Tisbury.

Just south of the forest lies Martha's Vineyard Airport, which the town shares with Edgartown ( although the facilities are mostly in West Tisbury ).

The town also has two portions of state forest near West Royalston.

The city was incorporated in the late 1870s and is situated along the dividing line between the former great deciduous forest of the Northwest Territories to the East, and the great plains to the West, in a region of gentle hills, where the recent geological history is dominated by the recession of the glaciers from the last great Ice Age, with numerous lakes and small rivers about.

In 1875, the best " hard " West Deer Park bricks were selling for $ 7 per 1, 000 delivered, but the plant was destroyed by a forest fire in the spring of 1893.

West of Route 42 the land is a mixture of deciduous ( hardwoods ) and coniferous ( evergreen ) forest.

The-ley in the place name is typical of this section of West Yorkshire, alluding to a forest that was around in medieval times.

In the United Kingdom, other than those run by the Agroforestry Research Trust ( ART ), there are numerous forest garden projects such as the Bangor Forest Garden in Gwynedd, North West Wales.

Within it are the forests Neldoreth or Taur-na-Neldor, the northern beech forest, Nivrim, the West March, an oak forest, Region the main forest, and Arthórien between Aros and Celon.

But this fire, among other devastating drought-year fires in the American West, helped propel new forest management laws, enacted by both the U. S. Congress and local authorities.

South Africa is largely destitute of forest save in the lower valleys and coast regions.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Cameroon is sometimes described as " Africa in miniature " because it exhibits all the major climates and vegetation of the continent: mountains, desert, rain forest, savanna grassland, and ocean coastland.

A wet climatic phase in Africa turned the Ethiopian Highlands into a mountain forest.

Oyo, as a northern Yoruba kingdom, served as middle-man in the north-south trade and connecting the eastern forest of Guinea with the western and central Sudan, the Sahara, and North Africa.

Much larger is Mau Forest, the largest forest complex in East Africa.

Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the 2nd millennium AD there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest, with the people of the savanna acting as intermediaries in exchanges of various goods.

Birdwatching-related tourism has a potential to develop as well, especially in Nyungwe National Park, among the largest uncut forest reserves in Africa.

The Narina Trogon of Africa is slightly exceptional in that it utilises a wider range of habitats than any other trogon, ranging from dense forest to fairly open savannah, and from the Equator to southern South Africa.

Important areas of cloud forest are in Central-and South America, East-and Central Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, at the Philippines, Papua-New Guinea and in the Caribbean.

The family has a cosmopolitan distribution across the world, absent only from the densest forest of central Africa, some remote oceanic islands, the high Arctic and Antarctica.

The seed, leaves, and bark of the kapok tree have been used in traditional medicine by indigenous peoples of the rain forest regions in the Americas, West-Central Africa, and South East Asia to treat this disease.

Agamas originally lived in forest and bush across Africa, but have since adapted to live in villages and compounds where their habitat has been cleared.

Bokassa was born on 22 February 1921 as one of 12 children to Mindogon Mgboundoulou, a village chief, and his wife Marie Yokowo in Bobangui, a large M ' Baka village in the Lobaye basin located at the edge of the equatorial forest, then a part of colonial French Equatorial Africa, some southwest of Bangui.

Uniquely adapted for climbing and visual hunting, the approximately 160 species of chameleon range from Africa, Madagascar, Spain and Portugal, across south Asia, to Sri Lanka, have been introduced to Hawaii, California, and Florida, and are found in warm habitats that vary from rain forest to desert conditions.

Human loiasis geographical distribution is restricted to the rain forest and swamp forest areas of West Africa, being especially common in Cameroon and on the Ogooué River.

It breeds in forest and savannah across sub-Saharan Africa, usually near water, its range coinciding with that of the Oil Palm.

FPP works with forest peoples in South America, Africa, and Asia, to help them secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation are best achieved on their lands.

The largest tropical forest zone in Africa are the Congolian forests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa.