Coastal Temperate Rainforest - Remaining Late Seral Forest Fragments in Northwest North America

This layer represents the remaining late seral forest fragments within the original distribution of the coastal temperate rain forest. Excerpt from "The Rain Forests of Home: An Atlas of People and Place. Part 1: Natural Forests and Native Languages of the Coastal Temperate Rainforest" (p. 13): Analysts determined the extent of the remaining undeveloped forest by subtracting a GIS layer representing areas primarily affected by human activity from the layer of original forest distribution. The "human development" layer was assembled from sources giving some indication of areas primarily affected by farming, logging, or urban development. These sources included forest and vegetation classification data sets as well...

Tags: forest remnant, late seral forest, old growth, rain forest