The next four photos are typical roadside views in Washington and Oregon. The gigantic stumps, many from trees 100 centuries old, are harder to see where young trees have grown up around them, but they are literally everywhere. They persist for hundreds of years as a reminder of the lush and open forests that once covered Washington and Oregon from the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean. Obviously, forests like those will never be seen here again. Even the largest trees in the background of the images below are many centuries away from attaining the stature of their ancestors. In the first photograph note that two trees of reasonable size had grown on top of the huge stump, but were cut down in the subsequent periodic logging operations.

Two of the photos above are from Washington and two are from Oregon. Can you tell which is which?