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Olympic Mountains, the Glossary

The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States.^[1]

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Mountain ranges of Washington (state)
Pacific Coast Ranges

Aberdeen, Washington

Aberdeen is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.

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Abies amabilis

Abies amabilis, commonly known as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range.

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Abies lasiocarpa

Abies lasiocarpa, the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree.

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Acer circinatum

Acer circinatum, or vine maple, is a species of maple native to northwestern North America.

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Acer macrophyllum

Acer macrophyllum, the bigleaf maple or Oregon maple, is a large deciduous tree in the genus Acer.

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Alnus alnobetula

Alnus alnobetula is a common tree widespread across much of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Alnus rubra

Alnus rubra, the red alder, is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to western North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana).

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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Antiquities Act

The Antiquities Act of 1906 is an act that was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906.

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Arbutus menziesii

Arbutus menziesii or Pacific madrone (commonly madrone or madrona in the United States and arbutus in Canada), is a species of broadleaf evergreen tree in the family Ericaceae.

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Bailey Range

The Bailey Range is a mountain range located within Olympic National Park in Washington state. Olympic Mountains and Bailey Range are mountain ranges of Washington (state).

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Banana slug

Banana slugs (Ariolimax) are a genus of North American terrestrial slugs in the family Ariolimacidae.

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Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Big Quilcene River

The Big Quilcene River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Black-tailed deer

Two forms of black-tailed deer or blacktail deer that occupy coastal woodlands in the Pacific Northwest of North America are subspecies of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus).

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Bogachiel River

The Bogachiel River is a river of the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Boulder Peak (Washington)

Boulder Peak is a peak located in Washington state, in Olympic National Park.

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Buckhorn Wilderness

The Buckhorn Wilderness is a mountainous wilderness area on the northeastern Olympic Peninsula in Washington, USA.

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Bull trout

The bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) is a char of the family Salmonidae native to northwestern North America.

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Callitropsis nootkatensis

Callitropsis nootkatensis, formerly known as Cupressus nootkatensis (syn. Xanthocyparis nootkatensis, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), is a species of tree in the cypress family native to the coastal regions of northwestern North America.

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Campanula piperi

Campanula piperi (Olympic bellflower, USDA PLANTS. Burke Museum. University of Washington. Olympic harebell, NatureServe. 2012. Piper's bellflower) is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae.

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Carex nigricans

Carex nigricans is a species of sedge known by the common name black alpine sedge.

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Carex spectabilis

Carex spectabilis is a species of sedge known by the common name showy sedge.

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Cascade Range

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range are mountain ranges of Washington (state), Pacific Coast Ranges and physiographic sections.

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Chehalis River (Washington)

The Chehalis River is a river in Washington in the United States.

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Chinook Jargon

Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.

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Cicindela bellissima

Cicindela bellissima, the Pacific coast tiger beetle, is a species of flashy tiger beetle in the family Cicindelidae.

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Cirque

A (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

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Clallam County, Washington

Clallam County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Clastic rock

Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.

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Coastal plain

A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.

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Cope's giant salamander

Cope's giant salamander (Dicamptodon copei) is a species of salamander in the family Dicamptodontidae, the Pacific giant salamanders.

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Corallorhiza maculata

Corallorhiza maculata, or spotted coralroot, is a North American coralroot orchid.

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Cordilleran ice sheet

The Cordilleran ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million years.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Devil's club

Devil's club or Devil's walking stick (Oplopanax horridus, Araliaceae; syn. Echinopanax horridus, Fatsia horrida) is a large understory shrub native to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, but also disjunct on islands in Lake Superior.

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Dolichovespula maculata

Dolichovespula maculata is a species of wasp in the genus Dolichovespula and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae.

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Dolly Varden trout

The Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Dosewallips River

The Dosewallips River is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Douglas fir

The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae.

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Duckabush River

The Duckabush River is located in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, United States.

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Dungeness River

The Dungeness River is a long river located in the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Duwamish people

The Duwamish (dxʷdəwʔabš) are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington, and the Indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle.

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Elwha River

The Elwha River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Erigeron flettii

Erigeron flettii is a rare North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common names Flett's fleabane or Olympic Mountains fleabane.

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Erythronium quinaultense

Erythronium quinaultense, the Quinault fawn-lily, is a rare plant species endemic to a small region around Lake Quinault in Olympic National Park, Washington state, United States.

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Farallon Plate

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate.

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Fisher (animal)

The fisher (Pekania pennanti) is a carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States.

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Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth.

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Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading post built in the winter of 1824–1825.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician.

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Glacial erratic

A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Grand Pass (Washington)

Grand Pass is a mountain pass in the Olympic Mountains in the state of Washington.

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Grays Harbor

Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state, in the United States.

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Grays Harbor County, Washington

Grays Harbor County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great horned owl

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Hamma Hamma River

The Hamma Hamma River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Harlequin duck

The harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a small sea duck.

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Hoh Rainforest

Hoh Rainforest is one of the largest temperate rainforests in the U.S., located on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state.

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Hoh River

The Hoh River is a river of the Pacific Northwest, located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Hood Canal

Hood Canal is a fjord forming the western lobe, and one of the four main basins of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Hoodsport, Washington

Hoodsport is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mason County, Washington, United States.

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Hoquiam, Washington

Hoquiam is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.

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Humptulips River

The Humptulips River is a river in Grays Harbor County, Washington, in the United States.

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Hurricane Ridge

Hurricane Ridge is a mountainous area in Washington's Olympic National Park.

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Hydrography

Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defense, scientific research, and environmental protection.

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Ice sheet

In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.

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Jefferson County, Washington

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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John Meares

John Meares (c. 1756 – 1809) was an English navigator, explorer, and maritime fur trader, best known for his role in the Nootka Crisis, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.

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Joseph P. O'Neil

Joseph Patrick O'Neil (December 27, 1863 – July 27, 1938) was a United States Army officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Juan de Fuca

Juan de Fuca (10 June 1536, Cefalonia 23 July 1602, Cefalonia)Greek Consulate of Vancouver, "".

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Juan José Pérez Hernández

Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés 1725 – November 3, 1775), often simply Juan Pérez, was an 18th-century Spanish explorer.

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Lake Crescent

Lake Crescent is a deep lake located entirely within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States, approximately west of Port Angeles on U.S. Route 101, near the small community of Piedmont.

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Lake Crescent cutthroat trout

The Crescenti cutthroat trout or the Lake Crescent cutthroat trout is a North American freshwater fish, a local form (f. loc.) of the coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii) isolated in Lake Crescent in Washington.

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List of Greek mythological figures

The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion.

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List of mountain ranges in Washington

There are at least 64 named mountain ranges in the U.S. state of Washington. Olympic Mountains and List of mountain ranges in Washington are mountain ranges of Washington (state).

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Lost Pass

Lost Pass is a mountain pass crossed by hiking trail in the Olympic Mountains of the state of Washington.

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Lyre River

The Lyre River in the U.S. state of Washington flows out of Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.

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Mare

A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.

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Mason County, Washington

Mason County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Mazama pocket gopher

The Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) is a smooth-toothed pocket gopher restricted to the Pacific Northwest.

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Mount Anderson (Washington)

Mount Anderson is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

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Mount Angeles

Mount Angeles is located just south of Port Angeles, Washington in the Olympic National Park.

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Mount Cameron (Washington)

Mount Cameron is a triple-summit mountain located within Olympic National Park in Jefferson County of Washington state.

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Mount Carrie

Mount Carrie is a mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Clallam County of Washington state.

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Mount Christie (Washington)

Mount Christie is high peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington in Olympic National Park.

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Mount Constance

Mount Constance is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington and the third highest in the range.

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Mount Deception (Washington)

Mount Deception is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Cascadia.

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Mount Ellinor

Mount Ellinor is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington, United States.

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Mount Mazama

Mount Mazama (Tum-sum-ne in the Native American language Klamath) is a complex volcano in the western U.S. state of Oregon, in a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and Cascade Range.

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Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus (Ólympos) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about southwest from Thessaloniki.

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Mount Olympus (Washington)

Mount Olympus, at, is the tallest and most prominent mountain in the Olympic Mountains of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Mount Queets

Mount Queets.

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Mount Stone

Mount Stone is a peak in the Olympic Mountains.

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Mount Storm King

Mount Storm King is located within the Olympic National Park about 20 miles west of Port Angeles, Washington.

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Mount Townsend (Washington)

Mount Townsend is a mountain in the U.S state of Washington located within the Buckhorn Wilderness near Quilcene.

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Mount Washington (Olympics)

Mount Washington is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington state.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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Mountain beaver

The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa)Other names include boomer, mountain boomer, ground bear, giant mole, gehalis, sewellel, suwellel, showhurll, showtl, and showte, as well as a number of other Native American terms, such as Colin, Franklin and Mortimer.

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Mountain goat

The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a cloven-footed mammal that is endemic to the remote and rugged mountainous areas of western North America.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Mule

The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse.

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Northern spotted owl

The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is one of three spotted owl subspecies.

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Obduction

Obduction is a geological process whereby denser oceanic crust (and even upper mantle) is scraped off a descending ocean plate at a convergent plate boundary and thrust on top of an adjacent plate.

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Olympic marmot

The Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus) is a rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.

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Olympic mudminnow

The Olympic mudminnow (Novumbra hubbsi) is a fish native to the western lowlands of Washington: the Chehalis River basin, Deschutes River basin, and some Olympic Peninsula basins.

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Olympic National Forest

Olympic National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Washington, USA.

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Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park is a United States national park located in the State of Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula.

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Olympic Peninsula

The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park.

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Olympic torrent salamander

The Olympic torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus) is a species of salamander in the family Rhyacotritonidae.

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Oncorhynchus

Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin.

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Osprey

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Pacific Border province

The Pacific Border province is a physiographic province of the Physiographic regions of the world physical geography system. Olympic Mountains and Pacific Border province are Pacific Coast Ranges.

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Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Phlox diffusa

Phlox diffusa is a species of phlox known by the common name spreading phlox.

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Picea sitchensis

Picea sitchensis, the Sitka spruce, is a large, coniferous, evergreen tree growing to just over tall, with a trunk diameter at breast height that can exceed 5 m (16 ft).

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Port Angeles, Washington

Port Angeles is a city and county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound are physiographic sections.

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Queets River

The Queets River is a river in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Quillayute River

The Quillayute River (also spelled Quileute River) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

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Quinault River

The Quinault River is a long river located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Rain shadow

A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.

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Rocky Mountain elk

The Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.

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Roosevelt elk

The Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), also known commonly as the Olympic elk and Roosevelt's wapiti, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of elk (Cervus canadensis) in North America by body mass.

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Rubus parviflorus

Rubus parviflorus, commonly called thimbleberry, (also known as redcaps) is a species of Rubus native to northern temperate regions of North America.

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Rubus spectabilis

Rubus spectabilis, the salmonberry, is a species of bramble in the rose family Rosaceae, native to the west coast of North America from west-central Alaska to California, inland as far as Idaho.

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Rufous hummingbird

The rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) is a small hummingbird, about long with a long, straight and slender bill.

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Russian River (California)

The Russian River (Southern Pomo: Ashokawna, Río Ruso) is a southward-flowing river that drains of Sonoma and Mendocino counties in Northern California.

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Salmonidae

Salmonidae (lit. "salmon-like") is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes (lit. "salmon-shaped"), consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids".

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Satsop River

The Satsop River is a stream in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Saussurea americana

Saussurea americana is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name American saw-wort.

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Seamount

A seamount is a large submarine landform that rises from the ocean floor without reaching the water surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet, or cliff-rock.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Skokomish Indian Tribe

The Skokomish Indian Tribe, formerly known as the Skokomish Indian Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, and in its own official use the Skokomish Tribal Nation, is a federally recognized tribe of Skokomish, Twana, Klallam, and Chimakum people.

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Skokomish River

The Skokomish River is a river in Mason County, Washington, United States.

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Sol Duc River

The Sol Duc River (also spelled Soleduck) is a river in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Strait of Juan de Fuca

The Strait of Juan de Fuca (officially named Juan de Fuca Strait in Canada) is a body of water about long that is the Salish Sea's main outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

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Stratification (vegetation)

Stratification in the field of ecology refers to the vertical layering of a habitat; the arrangement of vegetation in layers.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Tailed frog

The tailed frogs are two species of frogs in the genus Ascaphus, the only taxon in the family Ascaphidae.

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The Brothers (Olympic Mountains)

The Brothers are a pair of prominent peaks in the Olympic Mountains which are located in the Pacific Northwest, near Hood Canal in Washington state on the boundary between Olympic National Park and The Brothers Wilderness.

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The Mountaineers (club)

The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thuja plicata

Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America.

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Thunderbird (mythology)

The thunderbird is a mythological bird-like spirit in North American indigenous peoples' history and culture.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tsuga heterophylla

Tsuga heterophylla, the western hemlock or western hemlock-spruce, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Sonoma County, California.

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Tsuga mertensiana

Tsuga mertensiana, known as mountain hemlock, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, found between Southcentral Alaska and south-central California.

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Turbidite

A turbidite is the geologic deposit of a turbidity current, which is a type of amalgamation of fluidal and sediment gravity flow responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Mountains

Also known as "Olympian Mountains", Olympian Mountains, Olympic Range.

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