The Olympic Peninsula of Washington state is a wild and wooly place, even now in the 21st century. That’s no doubt largely because the heart of the peninsula is taken up by Olympic National Park, a more than 900,000-acre jigsaw puzzle of glaciers and peaks, rainforests, rivers, and Pacific coastline.
You might view Olympic National Park as three parks in one: The coastal area battered by the Pacific Ocean, the inland rain forests that cloak the Hoh, Quinault, and Sol Duc areas, and the high, craggy landscape embracing nearly 200 glaciers. If you’ve never visited the park, or have only experienced it once for a few days, our guest on today’s show will no doubt make you want to start planning for a trip to Olympic National Park.
Tim McNulty is a prolific writer who lives in the shadow of the national park. He has a new book out, “Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain”, that is a perfect introduction on the ecosystem of not just the national park but of the surrounding Olympic Peninsula.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
1:03 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:20 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:44 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
2:14 Potrero Group
2:46 Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain
13:42 Wabanaki - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
13:58 NPT Promo
14:10 Washington’s National Park Fund
14:42 Great Smoky Mountains Association
15:04 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
15:28 Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain Continues
28:11 Black Woods - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
28:30 Yosemite Conservancy
28:51 The Everglades Foundation
29:04 Friends of Acadia
29:37 Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain Continues
44:35 Schoodic - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
45:23 Episode Closing
45:52 Orange Tree Productions
46:24 Splitbeard Productions
46:35 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - October 15th, 2023 7:00am
