{"id":144,"date":"2014-07-16T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2014-08-05T22:27:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T22:27:32","slug":"0505-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/coniferous\/0505-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mountains Forests (NA0505)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Mountains are a more or less isolated mountain range separating the two huge chunks of the Columbia-Snake Shrub Steppe ecoregion to the north and south and is bordered by the Cascade Range to the west and the Bitterroot Range to the east. It is primarily an Oregon ecoregion but extends a bit into Washington state southwest of Lewiston and into a small part of western Idaho north of Boise.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"NA0505\" width=\"625\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505-1024x739.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505-624x450.jpg 624w, http:\/\/039adfd.netsolhost.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/NA0505.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Description of the\u00a0Ecoregion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A detailed description of the\u00a0ecoregion\u00a0can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/science\/wildfinder\/\">WWF&#8217;s site<\/a>\u00a0(the map\u00a0above\u00a0is a screen shot from\u00a0that Wildfinder site). There may also be additional information\u00a0to\u00a0be found on this ecoregion&#8217;s page at Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Briefly, the ecoregion is characterized by&#8230; [under construction]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least in Washington, representing a very small part of the ecoregion, the EPA&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Mountains Ecoregion&#8221;, as mapped at <a href=\"http:\/\/birdweb.org\/birdweb\/sites\">Bird Web<\/a> of the Seattle Audubon Society (SAS), is essentially the same as this WWF ecoregion, with some minor differences.<\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Birds of the Ecoregion<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The avifauna of the ecoregion&#8230; [under construction].<br \/>\n<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Seattle Audubon site<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> includes an excellent guide to the main birding sites of their &#8220;Blue Mountains Ecoregion&#8221; in Washington and a detailed month by month listing of all the bird species to be expected. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Resources for the Ecoregion Birder<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Without any pretense to completeness, the following resources have caught my attention and would be of value to the birder traveling to this ecoregion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seattle Aubudon Society&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/birdweb.org\/birdweb\/sites\">Bird Web<\/a> is a terrific resource for Washington state (see also above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Mountains are a more or less isolated mountain range separating the two huge chunks of the Columbia-Snake Shrub Steppe ecoregion to the north and south and is bordered by the Cascade Range to the west and the Bitterroot Range to the east. 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