We drove from Seaside to Port Angeles, WA along the Washington coast and through Olympic National Forest.

Astoria OR.

The next few pictures are the really long bridge connecting Oregon to Washington.

The Olympic Peninsula is a giant forest even more so than Oregon. Most of it is spruce and some sort of really big pine. Much of it is used as tree farms being clear cut on a 50 year cycle, each patch has a sign showing each time it has been harvested since the early 1900s. This photo and the next are a patches that have just been clear cut.

A clearcut is different from a harvested cornfield, somehow. It's upsetting; it looks like the aftermath of a natural disaster. Yet it really is a harvested, um, treefield. These patches haven't been forest for decades.

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