Setting
The ecoregion lies close to the Pacific Ocean, and is kept moist by Pacific Ocean storms during the winter months, and by coastal fogs in the summer months. The ecoregion covers 13,300 square kilometres (5,100 sq mi), extending from Del Norte County on the California-Oregon border south to Santa Cruz County. A few parts of the Santa Lucia Range in Monterey County have trees associated with this ecoregion. The ecoregion rarely extends more than 65 km inland from the coast. it is a sub-ecoregion of the Pacific Temperate Rain Forests ecoregion, which extends up the Pacific Coast to Kodiak Island in Alaska.
Read more about this topic: Northern California Coastal Forests (WWF Ecoregion)
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