Hoh Rain Forest by junge1
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The Hoh Rain Forest is part of the Olympic National Park on the Olympic Peninsula. Hoh Rain Forest is located on the Pacific Coast side of the Olympic Peninsula. The park receives from 40-inches to 240-inches (~1,020 mm to ~6,100 mm) of precipitation annually, the highest amount in the Lower 48 States and one of the highest amounts anywhere on Earth in the Mid-latitudes.
The Olympic National Park protects the largest old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest. Its unique character begins with ancient trees that took root 200 to 1,000 years ago. In these forests multi-layered canopies, standing snags, and fallen trunks provide habitat for myriad animals. The Olympics were set aside as a national monument in 1909 and further protected as Olympic National Park in 1938. Today the park is internationally recognized as a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site (Source: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior).
It is difficult to capture the incredible diverse ecosystem standing by the side of the road on a clear and sunny day, but the Park Service provides walkways through the forest starting near the Hoh Rain Forest Visitors Center that enables the visitors to see trees with hanging vines, overgrown with mosses and lichens, ferns and plants with leaves over two feet in diameter, usually dripping water and all competing for the little sun light that is normally available.
This picture was taken on 18 August 2015, Sig...
Comments (14)
One of my favorite places in the world! Average rainfall there is something like 142 inches. (That's something just under four meters, or about twelve feet, for those who have a hard time imagining so many inches.)
Excellent capture !!
Lush! The bottom of my garden is a bit like this, even without the huge rainfall!
Stunning capture my friend. God bless.
Great capture and cool information
beautiful lush vegetation, thanks for the info********
Nice shot.
I might add that the trails are not too difficult around the visitor's center and well worth a wander. The time I was there I got to see huge yellow slugs bigger than my thumb. I do not know if they were really named banana slugs, but that is how I thought of them. Thanks for sharing this lovely reminder of this amazing place.
Very beautiful and thank you for the info!
Very beautiful forest scene!!!
GREAT SHOT
looks like a Louisiana swamp with all the moss. very vibrant colors
I can almost hear the dripping moss...what a lovely scene!
wonderful