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      Level IV Ecoregion                                   Physiography                                                              Geology                                                                          Soil                                                                        Climate                                            Potential Natural                         Land Use and Land Cover    
                                Area                                                           Elevation /                  Surficial material and bedrock                Order (Great Groups)                             Common Soil Series                Temperature  /     Precipitation     Frost Free      Mean Temperature                       Vegetation                                                       
                               (square                                                        Local Relief                                                                                                                                                  Moisture Regimes    Mean annual       Mean annual      January min/max;
                               miles)                                                             (feet)                                                                                                                                                                          (inches)            (days)      July min/max, ( F)                                                                                      


1g.  Mid-Coastal               3739 Moderately sloping, dissected mountains with  300-2000                     Eocene marine sandstone, siltstone,                  Inceptisols (Dystrochrepts,              Preacher, Bohannon, Digger, Blachly,               Mesic/            60-130           110-200             32/48;           Western hemlock, western red cedar,            Douglas-fir/western hemlock/red alder/western
                                           medium to high gradient, sinuous streams.                /          mudstone, conglomerate.                              Eutrochrepts, Haplumbrepts),             Honeygrove, McDuff. Very deep to                     Udic                                                 48/78            Douglas-fir.                                   red cedar forests. Forestry, pastureland in
      Sedimentary                                                                             100-1500                                                              Ultisols (Palehumults,                   moderately deep, clay loam to gravelly                                                                                                                                    valleys, some rural residential development.
                                                                                                                                                                    Haplohumults)                            loam.