Washington Images and Prints Some pages still under construction
--Washington pages especially... Just like Oregon, Washington is
another state that contains more diversity and ecological
divisions within its artificially defined borders than across
these borders with adjacent states or with Canada. In climate,
flora, and fauna, western Washington has more in common with
western Oregon than with the “Inland Empire” east of the
dividing range of the Cascades. And the Cascades themselves are
a realm far removed in climate, geology, and topography from
lowlands to the east and west. The Washington Cascades have far
more in common with the Olympics or with the Oregon Cascades or
even with the Oregon Coast Range than with any other lands
within Washington’s boundaries. It might be supposed that arid
eastern Washington in the rain shadow of the Cascades mirrors
eastern Oregon, but much of eastern Oregon is a high, mountain-
studded plateau, often with a base elevation of 4,000 feet,
whereas much of eastern Washington