Owls add to the intrigue of moss- and lichen-covered conifer trees. (Photo: Jan Zoetekouw/Shutterstock) ... The understory of temperate rain forests hold a significant amount of biomass.

This unique climate creates an ecosystem filled with moss-draped trees ... The post The Tongass National Forest: Preserving America’s Largest Temperate Rainforest appeared first on ...

Temperate rainforests, like their tropical counterparts, are damp, dense forests that teem with life. These forests are found in isolated pockets around the world, on every continent except for ...

Miles Berkey] These temperate rainforests act as a ... [Miles Berkey] Don't overlook the green backdrop of the forest. You can see the diversity of moss if you just slow down and you look closely ...

Bald eagle perched, hunting, in an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island. The coastal temperate rainforests ... releases carbon so gradually that the moss and seedings growing atop absorb what ...

Wistman's Wood is one of the last remaining parts of Dartmoor Forest, which spread across the entire area over 9,000 years ago. This forest began to be cleared when Mesolithic hunters and settlers ...

Moss-speckled stones carpet the forest floor, while ferns festoon the whole scene. Flora like this, in such abundance, is a telltale sign that this is no ordinary woodland — it’s a temperate ...