>>2643403Man, your image alone shows a greater density of tree mass in places like the Cascades and the Sierras... there's a lot more to the beauty of a landscape than just "muh pretty colors in da fall" and thinking a conifer forest just looks uniform shows an ignorance and inability to discern and appreciate different tree species. Being in the southern Cascades and the siskiyous I have seen that, there is a ton of variety of trees, including beautiful cedars of different types, many firs, different types of pines, maples both large and small (eg vine maples), manzanita shrubs, madrone trees, oaks of several types all in great density. Even the conifer trees have their own seasonal changes when they begin flowering with their cones, walking through the mountains here and running into the rairies you see beautiful fields of wild flowers and shrubs, many of which here are only found on specific mountains here creating a much greater picture than any seasonal changes of a deciduous forest could show you. You speak like somebody who has never actually been inside a western forest and only seen pictures of the mountains from a distance, which look uniform from afar but are far from it when you actually experience them. But hell, this is /out/, why would I expect anybody on this board to know what they are talking about when they talk shit about my beautiful mountains?
