Olympic national park also includes a section of temperate rainforest (it receives over 100 inches of rain a year), a remnant of about 3% saved from the loggers.
Seconds after taking this picture a dog cycled past us brandishing an uzi
The forest floor is so densely packed with vegetation that new tree seedlings can only get a chance to germinate free from competition on 'nurse logs' which are recently fallen tree trunks. The seedling tree grows in plenty light a metre or two from the ground on top of the fallen log and over the first few years must grow its roots downwards to reach the soil below the 'nurse log'. The end result many years later is a strange mangrove effect as the former seedling tree is now standing on a support of many buttress roots with space under them where the nurse log has rotted away and disappeared over the years.
nurse log
banana slug - according to the Daily Mail the EU wants these to be straightened
oh the horror!
the moss is symbiotic and the tree roots grow into it in order to tap into the water
wow
a large amount of moss
mad table art in Forks (where twilight is based, it was slightly lost on us having never read or seen it)
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