It’s the largest and longest living life form in the world . Conifers are considered to be the primary source of the commercial softwood timber required for production of paper 3 . The northwestern coniferous forest, spread across the northwestern regions of the United States, is characterized by lush green vegetation, earning it the name ‘temperate rain forest’. Mainly found in the cold and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, the coniferous forest exists in an unbroken belt extending from the northern regions of Asia and Europe to northern United States, Canada, and Alaska.
