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Ranger-designed logo fetes park’s 75th year PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A glacier-capped mountain with a river running through a forest and a starfish reminiscent of the coast. Does that sound like home? It did to Olympic National Park staff members, who created a new logo in celebration of its 75th year as a national park. Park interpretive rangers Greg Marsh and Judy Lively collaborated on a logo with elements of the park’s best-known features: glacier-capped mountains, primeval forest, rivers and the rugged Pacific Coast. The logo also sports the words “Your Park, Your Heritage.” Limited-edition pins featuring the logo are available at Discover Your Northwest bookstores around the park, including the Olympic National Park Visitor Center at 3002 Mount Angeles Road in Port Angeles and the Hoh
Rain Forest Visitor Center south of Forks. Lively, who works on the West End, designed the logo based on a drawing by Marsh, who is stationed at the visitor center in Port Angeles, said Barb Maynes, park spokeswoman.
Original intention “The original drawing was intended to be a logo for the interpretive and education team within the park,” Maynes said. “When we began talking about a logo for the 75th anniversary, there was a discussion about Greg’s drawing. Judy took it and adapted it.” Neither has received compensation except recognition, Maynes said Friday. Small anniversary events are planned during the year. Detailed information will be released as plans are finalized, Maynes added. “The actual anniversary day is June 29, so we are
looking at options for observing the anniversary on that date at various locations in the park,” she said. This week, the park plans to launch new pages on its website at www.nps. gov/olym/index.htm. The pages will provide details on the history of the area now protected by the national park, Maynes said. The park protects 922,651 acres of three distinctly different ecosystems: rugged mountains with glaciers, more than 70 miles of wild Pacific coast and large stands of oldgrowth forest and temperate rain forest. The land in the park first received federal protection in 1897, when President Grover Cleveland designated the Olympic Forest Reserve. This designation protected the area’s forests, but not the native wildlife, and within a few years, the area’s elk population had plummeted because it was
overharvested, the park said. In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt designated part of the reserve as Mount Olympus National Monument. On June 29, 1938, after several decades of public discussion and debate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill establishing Olympic National Park. In establishing the park, Congress defined the park’s purpose as to: ■ Preserve “the finest sample of primeval forests of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States.” ■ Provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of native Roosevelt elk and other wildlife indigenous to the area. ■ “Conserve and render available to the people, for recreational use, this outstanding mountainous country containing numer-
ous glaciers and perpetual snow fields and a portion of the surrounding verdant forest together with a narrow string along the beautiful Washington coast.” The 75th anniversary of the park “gives us a chance to reflect on the outstanding natural and cultural
heritage protected within the park,” said Sarah Creachbaum, park superintendent. “Our local and regional neighbors are familiar with this heritage, but like all national parks, Olympic is a treasured part of our nation’s heritage.”
Earth Day activities planned on Peninsula PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
is planned. Crafts will focus on using recycled materials. Local vendors will have booths. Families are encouraged to bring picnic lunches. Refreshments also will be available for purchase. For more information about Sequim Pre-3, visit www.pre3.org.
Online registration is open for the Washington Coast Cleanup on Saturday. Volunteers will spend part of the day removing marine debris from beaches from the Makah reservation to Cape Disappointment. Volunteers typically arrive early in the morning and work until about noon. A free lunch will be offered at several locations along the coast. The cleanup happens every April on Earth Day on about 35 beaches. For the years 2000-2012, a total of 10,729 volunteers collected about 320 tons of marine trash. For more information, and to register, visit www.coastsavers. org. Cleanups and other activities for Earth Day are scheduled in communities throughout the North Olympic Peninsula. Here is information for those who want to sign up to work or prepare for other events.
Gardiner Earth Day Celebration
Port Angeles Klallam challenge PORT ANGELES — Volunteers can register now for the Klallam Earth Day Challenge on Saturday, when teams will clean up beaches and creeks from Pillar Point to Dungeness Spit. Headquarters will be The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave. Teams assigned to areas will work from 8 a.m. to noon. From noon to 4 p.m. will be a celebration at The Landing mall with music by Howly Slim, food and awards. To sign up to participate, visit www.klallamearthday.org.
Cleanup benefit set PORT ANGELES — City and county residents now can begin cleaning up homes, yards and neighborhoods, and collecting trash for the annual Clallam Spring Clean Up, set from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Sunday, April 21. Household garbage and large items will be accepted for disposal at a discounted price at the Regional Transfer Station, 3501 W. 18th St., that day. Yard waste, tires, large appliances and other metals will be recycled. The $10 admission benefits the Port Angeles Food Bank. Only checks and cash will be accepted. No credit cards or food donations will be accepted. Loads will be limited to one per household and can be no larger than a full-sized pickup
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Kelly Johnson, left, and Lori Taylor pick up litter from the Waterfront Trail near the Port Angeles Boat Haven as part of a cleanup crew from the Port Angeles Association of Realtors last year. truck or a 5-foot-by-8-foot trailer. No commercial loads or vehicles. Tires, metals, waste oil, antifreeze, auto batteries and yard waste must be separated for recycling, and there is a limit of up to four tires and four appliances per household. Computers and televisions can be recycled at Goodwill or EcycleNW in Blyn. For information, visit www.ecyclewashington. org. For more details, phone 360417-4874 or visit www.cityofpa. us/transferstation.htm.
Sequim City cleanup days SEQUIM — City residents with coupons can haul appliances, furniture, tires or other large objects to the Sequim City
Shop during the annual Spring Clean Up program from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The program is open only to those living within the city limit. Coupons will be in the April issue of Sequim News, which is mailed with the city’s utility billing. Those who do not receive a utility bill and newsletter can bring proof of city residency to City Hall, 152 W. Cedar St., or the Public Works/Community Development Building, 615 N. Fifth Ave., to pick up coupons. With coupons, residents can bring pickup loads, one each or about 1 square yard, of trash to the Sequim City Shop at 169 W. Hemlock St. Without a coupon, the cost is $10 for the same amount. No refrigerators, freezers, paints or hazardous materials will be accepted. Cascade Bark at 11 Washing-
ton Harbor Road will offer the facility as a drop-off point for brush and yard waste from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday only. Residents must bring the coupon for yard waste. For more information, phone the Public Works Department at 360-683-4908. Phone 360-417-4875 or visit www.clallam.net for more information.
Earth Day festival SEQUIM — Sequim Pre-3 will host an Earth Day festival at Jardin du Soleil Lavender Farm, 3932 Sequim-Dungeness Way, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. A $2-per-child donation (cash only) is requested at the door, with all proceeds benefiting Sequim Pre-3. Family-friendly entertainment by local music and dance groups
GARDINER — Wild Birds Unlimited, 275953 U.S. Highway 101, will hold its eighth annual Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The event is dedicated to local organizations that work to preserve, promote and rehabilitate local native wildlife and habitat. Northwest Wildlife & Raptor Center founders Jaye and Gary Moore will attend with their rehabilitated birds of prey. Bluegrass musician Cort Armstrong and FarmStrong, a Northwest bluegrass band, will perform. Clandestine Caterers will serve pizza made in their mobile wood-fired oven. Among other groups that will have booths at the event are the Discovery Bay Bird Rescue; The Wind People — Traditional Northwest Native Wooden Flutes; Chocolate Serenade; the Dungeness River Audubon Center; Tribal Edge Primal Arts training center; Trinity River Marine; local artists Natalie Brown, Carmele Minor and Jason Hines; Peninsula Friends of Animals; Eagle Creek NW Native Plants; the North Olympic Salmon Coalition; Jefferson County Water and Beach Watchers; the Wild Olympics campaign; the Sierra Club; Power Trip Energy Corp.; and Bay Watch of Discovery Bay. Donations will be collected for the Northwest Wildlife & Raptor Center. The center is seeking donations of aquariums (in good condition), dog food, small animal-watering bottles, baby bottles to feed baby deer, powdered goat’s milk, KMR, alfalfa, chain-link fencing, an enclosed trailer for the release of wildlife and, as always, financial donations. For more information, phone 360-797-7100 or visit www. gardiner.wbu.com.
Port Townsend Main Street cleanup PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend’s Main Street program will hold an Earth Day Spring Clean Up from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. TURN
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