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Virtual Guidebook to the Olympic Peninsula
The Spruce Nature Trail Hoh River Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington |
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Parts of the rain forest are fairly open, with hemlock and spruce. (7-29-07) |
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Sitka spruce has a characteristic flared base. (7-29-07) |
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Near the river grazing by elk keeps the forest floor open. (7-29-07) |
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Alder and Sitka Spruce near the Hoh River. (7-29-07) |
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The wide gravelly Hoh River. (7-29-07) |
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The spruce forest is not as extravagantly mossy as the maple groves. (7-29-07) |
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Vine maples create tunnels of green light under the big spruce trees. (7-29-07) |
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Bigleaf and vine maples, Sitka spruce and western hemlock compose this forest. (7-29-07) |
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A colonnade of trees, all established along a now-vanished "nurse log". (7-29-07) |
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