Talk:Olympic National Park

Olympic Wilderness vs Peninsula
The Intro ends with the sentence, "In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated as the Olympic Wilderness ...". "Olympic Wilderness" is a stub-entry, and identifies it as "... comprising over 95% of Olympic National Park".  Nearly all the low-land forest biome of the Olympic Peninsula was converted to commercial plantation forest in the early 20th C., and most of that continues to be logged, heavily. There has been some reclassification of National Forest areas, and extensive 'spotted owl closure', but Washington DNR state forest and corporate timberlands are in active extraction. A rough guess is that about half the Olympic Peninsula is Olympic National Park (and Olympic Wilderness), while the other half is full-on logging-country.  Originally (1890s) the environmentalist aspiration was to protect the whole of the Olympic Peninsula, as an integrated, complete habitat. However, the Olympic Nat'l Park was stalled for 40 years (while the valuable - and stunning - lowland forests were 'converted'), and then only the mountainous interior zone (and its low-value timber) was made Park. Nonetheless, talk & hope persisted, that the entirety of the Peninsula could be protected ... and hold-overs of this idea continue to appear in contemporary literature.  Most likely a minor 'typo', the statement that "almost all of the Olympic Peninsula" is Wilderness also alludes to a substantial backstory & not-yet-dead meme ... in which that is what would have happened. Ted Clayton (talk) 01:28, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Flora
The Olympics have some really amazing flora. I'd really be cool to have a section about it, not only the flora but maybe also about the other beauty it shares.

Geology
From my last visit to Olympic National Park, it sounded like it had a very unique geology. I really don't know enough to write anything about it, but I think it should be mentioned.65.100.48.231 18:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Images and Diagrams
An archival photo of the beach (or rivers) showing log-jams would be useful.  A map of the park area showing how the coastal strip is separate from the mountainous area would be more informative than our description. (Also a reference for Roosevelt's involvement in the Park's creation is necessary.) K Krum 08:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC) they had alot of butts..

Duplication
Without omitting the comparative difficulty of the beach sections, much of the Coastline paragraphs should be moved to Recreation, or trimmed where duplicate. K Krum 08:18, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Created
Many people want to know why the park was made in the first place or even why congress had denied aprovel in the first place. Some words from the legislation itself, could help many more people understand and grasp the concept of why President Theodore Roosevelt created it in the first place, or why Franklin Roosevelt approved it. This information could help us understand exactly why this beautiful park is here today.

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Partly fixed "Wilderness" thing

 * As somebody pointed out above, the article recently said most of Olympic Pen. was designated wilderness in 1988, which of course is incorrect. I'm assuming there was some 1988 legislation affecting some federal properties. Perhaps I even dimly aware of this, but have no citations. There were some small wilderness areas created in mid-to-late 1970s, but probably whatever the latest legislative action would be in this regard is sufficient to note.
 * Citations would be helpful.

Calamitybrook (talk) 17:14, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Nothing is cited
Only the intro has citations. The rest of it doesn't. Where are the other citations for everything in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 21:21, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You're right. Please feel free to help out and add some, I'm going to remove the B-class rating, as that's obviously wrong for an unreferenced article.  Acroterion   (talk)   21:27, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

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