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No it doesn't. To you maybe. But not to someone who pursues natural sciences/nature study for either a career or hobby.
Those are not the people responding to such threads in forums like this. Even to a person who knows science/nature, the resemblance I described is striking and unexpected and would surprise most people.
Foe example, I know birds pretty well, and dense forest is a terrible place to look for birds. They are seemingly absent, the forest is very quiet of birdsong, the species variety in any acre of forest is very low, even the tropics.
To a person getting off a tour bus, a forest is a very uniform and uneventful place, and all essentially indistinguishable to the untrained eye, except the difference between coniferous and deciduous. Few people would see any difference from one forest to another, without a tour guide pointing out unique features, and tour guides are often summer jobs done by people who have no knowledge except a few talking points, and are unable to answer even the most fundamental questions.
I am a fan of evergreens, so any forest rich in them is most beautiful to me: from Redwood Forest to the Washington Penninsula to the North Woods of MN/WI/MI to New England. I'd imagine Canada would have a major foothold in the argument as well.
Representing for the Southern Appalachians here. Due to the retreat of the ice age you get so many ecosystems all within a short distance.
Unfortunately it is slipping with the demise of the hemlocks :-( . But the Balsam Firs are coming back at the highest elevations and it smells like hiking through a christmas tree forest.
I don't know if I'd be "surprised". I lived in Eugene for several years, travelled a fair bit in Oregon, Washington and NorCal.
I didn't think it was the most beautiful, majestic, stunning place on earth. I thought it was lovely at times and in certain spots, but I never thought it was anywhere near as phenomenal as the natives and proselytizing transplants seemed to. There a kind of culture in Oregon (especially) and the PacNW in general of utter disbelief if an individual doesn't think Oregon is The Greatest Thing Ever!! I never understood that.
The most spectacular parts of this temperate rainforest aren't in California, Washington or Oregon.
Representing for the Southern Appalachians here. Due to the retreat of the ice age you get so many ecosystems all within a short distance.
Unfortunately it is slipping with the demise of the hemlocks :-( . But the Balsam Firs are coming back at the highest elevations and it smells like hiking through a christmas tree forest.
The Smokies alone have greater tree diversity than the entire continent of Europe.
Northern Appalachia, Northern Cali and the Northwoods.
The PacNW has pretty trees for postcards, but on the ground it is a dank, dreary, mucky, mouldy wet mess most of the time.
Second vote here for the Northern Appalachia. Thick hardwood forests with a ton of green underbrush. Nothing beats the NE in the Fall. You won't find those vibrant colors any where else in the country.
Second vote here for the Northern Appalachia. Thick hardwood forests with a ton of green underbrush. Nothing beats the NE in the Fall. You won't find those vibrant colors any where else in the country.
I don't think there is a best per se. So many different things to look at that make it unique that I can't choose a best. I like the mountains where there are pine trees and creeks of melting snow coming down them in colorado. Minnesota has tons of trees by sheer volume up north. Minneapolis as a city has trees everywhere. They have roads with trees lined down each side of them all over the place.
California has sheer size and beauty of the giant sequias and redwood trees. All uniqe and great in their own ways and all have totally different feelings when in them.
Coolness factor goes to redwoods. Color factor to MN, ruggedness colorado, and probably other states I have never been to are also great.
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