In 1967, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake caused extensive damage along the North Anatolian fault just east of the current shock. The 900 km-long North Anatolian fault has many characteristics similar to California's San Andreas fault. These two faults are right-lateral, strike-slip faults having similar lengths and similar long-term rates of movement.
Wolves are carnivores, or meat eaters. Gray wolves prey primarily on ungulates â large, hoofed mammals such as white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose, elk, caribou, bison, Dall sheep, musk oxen, and mountain goats. Medium-sized mammals, such as beaver and snowshoe hares, can be an important secondary food source.
Weasels eat small animals, and raccoons eat animals, fishes, frogs, and fruit. Owls eat mice and chipmunks. Large secondary consumers, such as wolves, bears, and cougars, are the only ones who can bring down deer or elk. The larger carnivores may also eat smaller ones sometimes. There are other animals in this food web, such as foxes, beavers, black birds, and porcupines. Because the plants do so well, animals flourish too. Threats to the Temperate Rainforest Most of the threats toward the temperate rainforest come from humans harvesting trees to use as resources for such things as paper.