Olympic National Park

by McNulty, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780295983004
• ISBN10: 0295983000
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

On Washington's Olympic Peninsula more than 1400 square miles of rugged mountains, richly forested river valleys, and pristine wilderness coast have been preserved as Olympic National Park. From rain forests with more than 160 inches of annual precipitation to arid rainshadow slopes, from rugged glacier-covered mountains to the wild Pacific coast, the park's varied ecosystems feature an extraordinary range of plants and animals, including many species found nowhere else on earth. This illustrated complete guide covers geology, wildflowers and other plant life, rain forest ecology, glaciers, wildlife, rivers, the Pacific coast, and visitor information. Tim McNulty is a poet and nature writer who lives in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains.

Table of Contents

An Island of Rivers
The Mountains
Shuffled Texts of Stone	p. 1
Legacies of Ice	p. 19
The High-Country Year	p. 43
The Forest
The Rain Forest	p. 61
The Old-Growth Forest Community	p. 79
The Lives of Olympic Rivers	p. 99
The Coast
Life at the Edge of Land and Sea	p. 121
Seabirds and Mammals of the Outer Coast	p. 145
Humans and the Landscape
Footprints on the Land	p. 179
Protection for Olympic's Wildlands	p. 207
Visitor's Information	p. 227
General Information	p. 227
Where to See Wildflowers	p. 229
Where to See Old-Growth Forest	p. 230
Where to See Wildlife	p. 233
Species Checklists	p. 237
Chapter Notes	p. 250
Bibliography	p. 262
Index	p. 268
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