Treehugger
@true-conservative
Forest ecologist in the PNW. I hug trees, with a diameter tape! Love to ramble in forests and mountains and make lame attempts to photograph them. F*CK ICE
Dry Falls in eastern Washington. Created by multiple Missoula (Bretz) floods at the end of the last ice age, the falls are over 3 miles wide and 400 feet tall. The water below the falls is groundwater raised by the Grand Coulee dam. #WaterfallWednesday #PNW
This part of Escalante canyon is supposedly no longer in the National Monument. There are old mining claims in this side canyon.
Lots of thick trunks on the ground in a forest recovering 21 years (2001) after the last eruption from Mt. St. Helens #ThickTrunkThursday #PNW #NationalMonument #Volcano
A cool gushing stream in the deep forest. Stay cool out there! #WaterfallWednesday #PNW #Moss #Forest
Banff + Jasper National Parks are such gems #Stunday #SilentSunday #Canada #NationalParks
Little Pippsisewa (Chimaphyla menziessi) enjoying a sun fleck in the deep forest. #wildflower #wildflowerFriday #PNW #ForestFriday
A favorite old forest of Douglas-fir, western hemlock, and western redcedar. #ThickTrunkThursday #PNW #Wilderness
Elephant's head, Pedicularis groenlandica, in an Olympic alpine meadow. Scanned from a slide taken many moons ago. #WildflowerWednesday #PNW
Classic old-growth Ponderosa pine open stand maintained by frequent fire, central Oregon. Scanned from a slide taken many moons ago. #ThickTrunkTuesday #PNW
A pika "haypile" being dried out last summer before winter storage #WildlifeWednesday #PNW
Glacier Peak and the headwaters of the Suiattle River. Scanned from a slide taken many moons ago #MountainMonday #PNW #WA
Looking across the Mendenhall Glacier at Suicide Basin, which periodically fills with melt water and releases large floods #MountainMonday #AK
Mt. Rainier at dawn from a ridge in the Olympics #SilentSunday #PNW
Approaching Whittier on the Alaska Marine Highway #SilentSunday #AK
Windswept mountain hemlock and travelers in the Olympic Mountains #ThickTrunkTuesday #PNW #WestCoastKin #beoutside
Enjoy gazing at the ledges and cliffs of a remote valley in canyon country #SilentSunday
They don't call these sequoias Giant for nothing! #ThickTrunkTuesday
The US' phallic f*ck you to the world was dedicated on this day in 1885. We've been at war almost constantly since then.
Even rainforests burn. The lightning-initiated 1978 Hoh fire, 40 years later with dense natural regeneration. #ForestFriday #PNW
A new generation gains a foothold in a forest gap #ForestFriday #PNW