Tim McNulty
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Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into the natural and human history of these nearly million acres, from remote headwaters to roadside waterfalls, from shipwreck sites to Native American historical...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
204 pages : color illustrations, photos, maps ; 24 cm
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In the Pacific Northwest, many of us delight in Olympic National Park, a unique and magical UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, located right in our own backyard. Yet the famed park is just the center of a much larger ecosystem, a wild circle of rivers that encompasses ancient old-growth forests, pristine coastal expanses, and jagged alpine peaks, all possessed of a rich biodiversity. For tens of thousands of years, humans have thrived and strived...
8) Ascendance
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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121 pages ; 23 cm
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Tim McNulty's third poetry collection explores themes of family, friendship, work, and solitude -- all within the larger context of the natural world. McNulty's clear voice and attentive eye bring the people, landscapes, and creatures that inhabit these poems vividly to life.
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Pub. Date
1998
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143 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 col. map ; 24 x 31 cm.
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In Washington's Mount Rainier National Park :a centennial celebration, poet and nature writer Tim McNulty and environmental photographer Pat O'Hara team up to present a stunning portrait of the Northwest's favorite mountain on the 100th anniversary of its designation as a national park. This is the official book of the Mount Rainier National Park Centennial.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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xxix, 262 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness 'as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.' Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails,...
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Pub. Date
c1984
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72 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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On Washington's Olympic Peninsula more than 1400 square miles of rugged mountains, richly forested river valleys, and pristine wilderness coast have been preserved as Olympic National Park. From rain forests with more than 160 inches of annual precipitation to arid rainshadow slopes, from rugged glacier-covered mountains to the wild Pacific coast, the park's varied ecosystems feature an extraordinary range of plants and animals, including many species...
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p1999
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1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Take a self-guided tour of the Hurricane Ridge Road." " On the way up, you'll hear about the history, geology, ecology and culture of the Olympic Peninsula from naturalist Tim McNulty, and Olympic National Park senior staff." "On your drive back down, native storytellers and others share some oral history."--Insert
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With all the gusto of a Paul Bunyan, Murray Morgan tells the story of this last thrilling American Wilderness. Everything on the Olympic Peninsula is on the grand scale - the people as well as the nautral marvels of the rain forest and the glacier-covered mountains. Here too is the story of the Pacific rain forest where sometimes as much rain falls in a day as falls in a year on parts of the Great Plains, and how it was butchered and burned to make...