Washington State Map With Mountains
Map Sources: Washington Gap Project 1991 Land Cover for Washington State, Washington State shaded relief GIS coverage of Washington,
Washington State WRIA Map. Permission to copy map in printed paper form is granted for educational employ.
Cartography past Fred Bentler
Western Washington is the area westward of the crest of the Cascade Mountain range draining to Puget Sound, the lower Columbia River, and the Pacific Body of water. The map of Western Washington shows the region's natural features including mount ranges and Cascade volcanoes, islands and peninsulas, and major lakes, and also displays urban center areas, prairies, farms and great forests that encompass the evergreen state.
The western Washington mural has been squeezed and buckled past geologic forces that uplifted the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, congenital up smashing volcanoes in the Cascades and and then blasted them apart.
The region has been covered by continental glaciers that gouged troughs, then receded, filling with seawater or fresh h2o lakes. Tall glaciers continue to slowly grind down the highest mountains, washing away rock flour that flows into Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, laying down mud. The land has been slowly worn by the weathering of seasons and over the long expanse of fourth dimension, covered with a thin layer of life that gives the region all its colour.
The natural world of western Washington has inverse by great human forces too, with native people having burned forests, creating open swaths of prairie to abound nutrient. Recently people founded cities where ancient forests stood, cities at present growing with huge suburbs and long concern strips spreading forth highways in all directions, with offices, industries, logging cuts and cultivated farmlands everywhere converting what is valuable in or on the land, to offer it for sale for the well-existence of our busy people.
And providing for quality of life or its sustainability, perhaps out of respect for something precious, or greater than ourselves, are wilderness areas, national parks, state parks, county parks, wildlife areas, and natural lands, the last best places set bated to remain mostly free from being used, places filled with adventure, discovery and wonder, mostly in the high mountains but many bits and pieces in the rich western lowlands too.
- Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition
- Conservation Futures anniversary video
Come across the Washington maps collection for detailed route maps, wildlife areas, and historical points of interest. Related links likewise provide information about Western Washington geology, maps and landscape photos.
Washington State Map With Mountains,
Source: http://www.bentler.us/western-washington/maps/default.aspx
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