Submitted by jamescookenotthatone t3_11xdorh in todayilearned
Reply to comment by valkyrjuk in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone
In the Pacific Northwest?
We have rainforests and deserts; Ski mountains and hot springs; Volcanoes and cedar groves. Don't judge us by Portland and Seattle.
Fair enough but hot springs, snowy mountains and volcanoes can be found almost anywhere.
Yes.
Half of Oregon looks like Arizona. It has scorpions and snakes
Didn’t know the first part but snakes aren’t exclusive to desert climates.
Generally they aren't a fan of damp though, unless sea snakes. Should have seen my face when we found a scorpion though, colour me surprised!
Also I recommend the movie even cowgirls get the blues not as good the book obvs but the rock makes an appearance
every rainforest on earth would like to disagree
You are correct. I forgot about the other snakes
Yes. That's where Oregon is
I'm not sure what you're surprised at
Just for that level of dryness to be present in that region. Since it’s a temperate rainforest and everything.
Look at a satellite map of Oregon. Most of the green is concentrated in the Cascadian range of the west. It's mostly desert as you go east.
Ah yeah, the rainforest is only in the Olympic peninsula from what I've seen. It gets wet a lot there
Edit: to add we've been at like 80% of our regular water table and in a drought the last few years
Yeah, that’s what everyone thinks, that it rains every day. I assure you, it does not.
We do not get enough average annual rain in most parts of Oregon to be a temperate rainforest by about 10 inches. And even without that, the wooded, foresty areas that everyone thinks of when thinking of oregon are on the northwestern coastal areas. The rest of the state is varying states of grasslands and dessert, and while less poplated, is the larger portion of the state by far.
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