Major ecoregions of Washington state |
Source: Draft: Level III and IV Ecoregions of the Northwestern United States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,Acrobat pdf, 2944 kilobytes, metadata). Also see Level III ecoregions of the continental United States.
1 Coast Range
1a Coastal Lowlands
1b Coastal Uplands
1c Low Olympics
1d Volcanics
1e Outwash
1f Willapa Hills
1g Mid-Coastal Sedimentary
1h Southern Oregon Coastal Mountains
1i Redwood Zone
2 Puget Lowland
2a Fraser Lowland
2b Eastern Puget Riverine Lowlands
2c San Juan Islands
2d Olympic Rainshadow
2e Eastern Puget Uplands
2f Central Puget Lowland
2g Southern Puget Prairies
2h Cowlitz/Chehalis Foothills
2i Cowlitz/Newaukum Prairie Floodplains
3 Willamette Valley
3a Portland/Vancouver Basin
3b Willamette River and Tributaries Gallery Forest
3c Prairie Terraces
3d Valley Foothills
4 Cascades
4a Western Cascades Lowlands and Valleys
4b Western Cascades Montane Highlands
4c Cascade Crest Montane Forest
4d Cascade Subalpine/Alpine
4e High Southern Cascades Montane Forest
4f Southern Cascades
9 Eastern Cascade Slope and Foothills
9a Yakima Plateau & Slopes
9b Grand Fir Mixed Forest
9c Oak/Conifer Eastern Cascades-Columbia Foothills
9d Ponderosa Pine/Bitterbrush Woodland
9e Pumice Plateau Forest
9f Cold Wet Pumice Plateau Basins
9g Klamath/Goose Lake Warm Wet Basins
9h Fremont Pine/Fir Forest
9i Southern Cascade Slope
9j Klamath Juniper/Ponderosa Pine Woodland
10 Columbia Plateau
10a Channeled Scablands
10b Loess Islands
10c Umatilla Plateau
10d Okanogan Drift Hills
10e Pleistocene Lake Basins
10f Dissected Loess Uplands
10g Yakima Folds
10h Palouse Hills
10i Deep Loess Foothills
10j Nez Perce Prairie
10k Deschutes/John Day Canyons
10l Lower Snake and Clearwater Canyons
10m Okanogan Valley
11 Blue Mountains
11a John Day/Clarno Uplands
11b John Day/ Clarno Highlands
11c Maritime-Influenced Zone
11d Melange
11e Wallowas/Seven Devils Mountains
11f Canyons and Dissected Highlands
11g Canyons and Dissected Uplands
11h Continental Zone Highlands
11i Continental Zone Foothills
11k Blue Mountain Basins
11l Mesic Forest Zone
11m Subalpine-Alpine Zone
11n Deschutes River Valley
11o Cold Basins
15 Northern Rockies
15a Grave Creek Range-Nine Mile Divide
15b Camas Valley
15c Flathead Valley
15d Tobacco Plains
15e Flathead Hills and Mountains
15f Grassy Potlatch Ridges
15g Western Okanogan Semiarid Foothills
15h High Northern Rockies
15i Clearwater Mountains and Breaks
15j Lower Clearwater Canyons
15k Clark Fork Valley and Mountains
15l Salish Mountains
15m Kootenai Valley
15n Weippe Prairie
15o Coeur d'Alene Metasedimentary Zone
15p St. Joe Schist-Gneiss Zone
15q Purcell-Cabinet-North Bitterroot Mountains
15r Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills
15s Spokane Valley Outwash Plains
15t Stillwater-Swan Wooded Valley
15u Inland Maritime Foothills and Valleys
15v Northern Idaho Hills and Low Relief Mountains
15w Western Selkirk Maritime Forest
15x Okanogan Highland Dry Forest
15y Granitic Selkirk Mountains
77 North Cascades
77a North Cascades Lowland Forests
77b North Cascades Highland Forests
77c North Cascades Subalpine/Alpine
77d Pasayten/Sawtooth Highlands
77e Okanogan Pine/Fir Hills
77f Chelan Tephra Hills
77g Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands
77h Chiwaukum Hills and Lowlands
77i High Olympics