In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to the NBII Program Termination page.
Washington Dept. Fish and Wildlife [Photo: Kelly McAllister]
Cascades frog Rana cascadae
Description:The Pacific Northwest is fortunate in having many different ecosystems and diverse habitats. Discover more about these ecosystems and the wildlife that is found in them.
Resources:Find out more about wildlife in Washington. http://wdfw.wa.gov
Washington is the only state named after a president. It is located north of Oregon and west of Idaho, south of the Canadian border. The Evergreen state, the 18th largest state in the union, can be divided into six geogrphic land areas; many with their own distinct climate types. These six areas are the Olympic Mountains, the Coast Range, Puget Sound Lowlands, the Cascade Mountains, the Columbia Plateau, and the Rocky Mountains.
Washington State Bird and Flower
ADW Animal Diversity Web [Roof, J. 1999] Willow Goldfinch Carduelis tristis
The Great Basin Information Project provides consolidated and efficient access to information about the Great Basin and the Columbia Plateau Regions of eastern Washington and Oregon, southern Idaho, northern Nevada and Utah, and portions of northeastern California. Three major plant communities grow in the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau: sagebrush, salt desert shrub, and pinyon-juniper woodlands. The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau regions comprise a large area of the western United States, approximately 225,674 sq. miles in size.
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
