Is that it isn’t a bioregional map of Cascadia. Fellow Olympian Matthew Green commented awhile ago:
The upper Columbia watershed has more ecological similarity to the upper
Colorado watershed than to the lower Columbia. Consider that a
relatively modest (geologically speaking) change in topology could join
them into a single watershed, thus radically altering the
watershed-defined “bioregion” but without fundamentally changing their
ecology.
So, to illustrate this, here’s that classic map of the Cascadian bioregion:
Here’s the Forest Service map of eco-regions, zooming into Cascadia:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the map which emphasizes human
cultural similarities actually does a better job of showing ecological
zones than the bioregion map does.


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