Cascade Range - Ecology

Ecology

There is a wide range of flora and fauna inhabiting the Cascade Range. The southern part of the Cascades are within what Conservation International defines as the California Floristic Province, an area of high biodiversity.

Black bears, coyotes, bobcats, cougars, Beavers, deer, and elk and a few wolf pack returning from Canada live in the Cascades, and in the northern mountains, Grizzly bears.

Most of the Cascades' lower and middle elevations are covered in coniferous forest and temperate rainforest; the higher altitudes have areas of alpine tundra and glaciers. Common trees include Western hemlock and Douglas fir.