The Elk River is in southwestern Oregon in the United States. About 29 miles (47 km) long, the river drains a remote 92-square-mile (240 km2) area of the Coast Range into the Pacific Ocean.
Elk River flowing through the forest
The Elk River at a high water level in 1999
Coast Range (EPA ecoregion)
The Coast Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and California. It stretches along the Pacific Coast from the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the north to the San Francisco Bay in the south, including Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington, the entire length of the Oregon Coast, and the Northern California Coast. Named for the Coast Range mountains, it encompasses the lower elevations of the Olympic Mountains, the Oregon Coast Range, the Californian North Coast Ranges, and surrounding lowlands.
From Ecola State Park, Oregon, a view of coastal uplands (foreground) and volcanic mountains (background)
Coast Douglas-fir, Oregon's state tree
Sitka spruce logged in the Oregon Coast Range
Port Orford cedar, endemic to the Southern Oregon Coastal Mountains
