>>2861322No idea where you travelled out west but it sounds like you weren't out there much. In Southern Oregon I see plenty of different trees. Fruit trees, nut trees, hardwoods, soft woods you name it. I have a feeling a lot of east coast people must not be able to tell the difference between different species of conifers either I constantly hear about how they think all the trees look the same. Red cedar, fir, pine, hemlock etcstera do not look the same if you have any knowledge of trees at all. Even in higher elevations up in the Cascades I'll find a variety of trees ranging from Madrones, to Elder, to Maples, to Firs, to Cedars, to Chestnuts. That's just the trees, and that is off the top of my head of what I would see on one trail. Not to mention the uncountable varieties of wild flowers, grasses, shrubs, ferns, fungi, lichens, birds, mammals, lizards, snakes, frogs, salamanders and what have you. I hiked in that area for years and still continue to find things I haven't seen before. And I can visit hundreds if different kimds of landscapes with different biological and geological makeups from low altitudes to high altitudes, be it in the volcanic mountains of the Cascades or down in the marshes and foothills and meadows in the valleys, or in the rugged rolling hills of the Siskiyous they all have a prettt diverse biological makeup and they are all different from each other. It genuinely seems like east coasters have a pretty shallow view of how it is out west.
Picrel is all the same tree copy pasted. It was the first relecant picture on my phone I could find
