Pacific Northwest

By Ari Espinosa, MANNRS Intern, Washington Fish & Wildlife Office Ari Espinosa, a student at Washington State University gives us a few fast facts about her summer internship with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Washington state. What are you studying? Currently, I’m working towards my bachelor’s at…

I slip between the branches of the old cedar — a Western Red, the tallest one in a small group on our property. My brothers have all climbed it. At nine, I am pliable. I thread my way through the circling branches, arranged like spokes on a bicycle wheel. I…

A step-by-step guide to preparing for, and doing the hike. — I hiked the 18-mile one-way trail across the Enchantments in July 2022. In this article, I’ll talk about what the Enchantments are, how I prepared for the hike, the logistics of the hike, and share my experience of the hike itself. What are the Enchantments? The Enchantments is an area near Leavenworth in Central…

I was born in the Pacific Northwest but I don’t live there now. I was recently in a long-distance relationship with a transplant to my home region. …

Olympic National Park might just be one of our all-time favorite national parks. Yes, we know, controversial. But honestly, this stunning national park in the heart of the Pacific Northwest truly has so much to offer that it would honestly be criminal to only give it one day to explore…

Lake Quinault — (En)chanted Drumming Before our parents died they asked us that when the time came, that we mix their ashes together and scatter them in two places: Lake Quinault in the Olympic National Park in Washington State, and the Atlantic Ocean at Bethany Beach in Delaware. This past week, three years later due…