Discover the enchanting world of Olympic's temperate rainforests, exploring their unique climate, lush vegetation, and diverse inhabitants.
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Where Rain Rules the Forest Floor
This series, Rainforest Rhapsody: The Hoh and Beyond, explores the temperate rainforests of Olympic National Park — how they formed, what lives in them, and why they…
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Ancient Trees Draped in Living Green
Sitka spruce trees here can live over seven hundred years and grow more than two hundred feet tall, making them some of the largest conifers on the planet.
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Dead Trees Raising the Next Forest
A single fallen tree in the Hoh Rain Forest can support more life dead than it did alive.
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Roosevelt Elk Own These Valleys
Theodore Roosevelt created a national monument here in 1909 specifically to protect these elk, and the species now bears his name.
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The Hidden Kingdom Beneath the Canopy
Over seven hundred species of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts have been identified in Olympic National Park, making it one of the richest concentrations of…
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Rivers That Feed the Green Cathedral
The Hoh, Queets, and Quinault Rivers carry glacial meltwater from Olympic peaks straight through the heart of these rainforest valleys, and their constant flow is what…
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