Temperate Rainforest

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The Temperate Rainforest biomes are mostly found on Pacific Coast of North America, and in South America. This terrain is is very green with lots of low-growing vegetation. Red spruce and Fraser fir are the majority canopy trees in these high mountain areas. Yellow birch, mountain ash, and mountain maple grow in the understory. Younger spruce and fir and shrubs like raspberry, blackberry, hobblebush, southern mountain cranberries, and red elderberry are understory vegetation. Below the spruce-fir forest, at around (3,900 ft), are forests of American beech, yellow birch, maple birch, and oak.The wet environment makes it common to see a large diversity of fungi. Over 2,000 species live in this area. These rainforest can also be found in many

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