Thursday, April 2, 2015

Why You Should Visit The Olympic National Park Anytime

By Iva Cannon


There quite a number of parts of the world. But one place you need to visit is the Olympic National Park locates in the United States of America. This place is beautiful, and it is in the state of Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The area is divided into four major areas known as the Pacific coastline, the rain forest with moderate temperatures, the alpine and the eastern side with forests.

Pacific coastline is rugged and has sandy beaches. It is located along adjacent forest and is sixty miles long and has native communities at the end of two rivers. The two rivers are Quileute River that has the Quileute people and the Hoh people who are located at the mouth of Hoh River. The coastline has a rich history, and the beaches have a stretch of the wilderness of about twenty miles.

The park also has thick gloves on the adjacent side of the sandy beaches. Finding fallen logs in this place is a common feature. You will quickly find natural timber, dead heads that have fallen near Hoh River. President Franklin Roosevelt once want the coastal areas, and the part be connected together.

There is also thick groves forest adjacent to the sandy beaches. More often you will find logs of fallen trees, and this is mostly seen near Hoh River. This region has large amounts of dead heads, and the natural eroded timber. President Franklin Roosevelt actually supported connecting the park land and the section of coastal areas.

There are turbidites in the park. They are unique rocks that are suspended at the ocean. In addition, they result in formation of sedimentary layers at the ocean floor. With time, the sediments compact in a regular cycle. There are also Olympic Mountains that have enormous glaciers on top of the mountains.

On the eastern side, you will find a range which is drier. It is because the area is the leeward side. It also has high peaks and craggy ridges.

Some other notable features include temperate forest on the western side. This side receives an annual precipitation of around 350mm to about 400mm annually. It experiences more rainfall than any other place in the area. The forest has coniferous trees as the dominant tree within the forest.

One notable feature in this region is the temperate forest. These trees on the western side receive a 380 cm annual precipitation. The amount rainfall this part of the park gets makes it the wettest part of the Olympic area. Coniferous trees are the dominant trees you can find in this rainforest.

In the year, 1920 mountain goats were introduced in the place but they destroyed the native flora. They management had to step in and take charge so that to restore the destroyed the flora. They become very destructive that why they had to take the necessary precautions to save this place from further precautions.




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