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Olympic montane forest This is the type of forest all of today's photos came from. Believe it or not, this is in one of the drier areas in the Olympics. The trail sits at least partially in the rain shadow of the Olympics, but plenty of water comes down from the mountains to keep it moist. Geotagged,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge

Olympic montane forest

This is the type of forest all of today's photos came from. Believe it or not, this is in one of the drier areas in the Olympics. The trail sits at least partially in the rain shadow of the Olympics, but plenty of water comes down from the mountains to keep it moist.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Beautiful habitat shot, exactly the type I could wander around in for hours. Preferably alone, investigating all things tiny. Posted 9 years ago
    1. View morpheme's profile
      morpheme
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      I think you'd enjoy it out here. We hiked around 10 miles out and back and spent about 7.5 hours on the trail. All day long we saw only 4 other parties (6 people all together) all going in the opposite direction that we where, so it was simply a nod and they were gone - and this was on a nice Sunday afternoon. On a weekday or a rainy day you probably wouldn't encounter another soul. Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        Hard to imagine for me, we don't have any true wild over here, all we got is highly managed planted forests with paved paths overrun by cyclists, people walking their dogs, etc. It explains my remote travel ambitions I guess. It also explains my macro interest, since it's one of the few things you can do in even tiny habitats. Posted 9 years ago
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          morpheme
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          We are very lucky out here. People with power recognized early on that there were places that should be preserved. The land for this park - almost 1 million acres, was set aside in 1897. That's not so far back when you think about European history and even on the East coast of the US people had already farmed, cut, mined or in some way altered most their natural landscape. Where I grew up in Pennsylvania the biggest parcel of old growth forest left is only 4,000 acres - about 6 square miles. Here it was so lightly populated that it was long enough ago that the land was still pretty well untouched. Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago
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            Wonderful, I'm happy for you and can tell from your excitement how much you enjoy it, and by sharing it, letting us enjoy it. Posted 9 years ago

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Uploaded May 10, 2016. Captured May 8, 2016 13:11 in NF-3030, Port Angeles, WA 98363, USA.
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