Coniferous forest: Quick Facts

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The Oulankajoki River winds through dense coniferous forest in Oulanka National Park, northeast Finland, with green trees covering the landscape.

Alaskan spruce forest

Tall redwood trees with thick trunks rise from a dense, green forest floor covered in ferns and moss in Redwood National Park, California.

A blanket of lush moss covers the trees in the Hoh Rain Forest, in Olympic National Park, northwestern Washington.

Putoran Mountains

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Taiga Temperate rainforest moist temperate coniferous forest montane forest Cordilleran forest subalpine forest closed canopy forest North American coniferous forest forest-tundra lichen woodland Deciduous forest

Spreading oak tree in summer. (green, leaves, deciduous, shade)

Trees: Giants Holding the Sky

Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

Ecosystems

Field of baobab trees, Madagascar. (bottle tree)

Trees of the World