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USA | Unprotected Cascades

43 images Created 9 Apr 2013

Just beyond our wilderness and national park boundaries are places just as deserving of protection. In Washington's North Cascades, a new campaign aims to expand the park and wilderness areas to include scenes such as these, which still fall - unbeknownst to most - on the wrong side of the line.

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  • Lush forest lines North Fork Cascade River, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Water flows around rocks in North Fork Cascade River, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • A Volkswagen Eurovan camper glows at night at the Mineral Park Campground in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Evening on the bank of the Cascade River at Mineral Park Campground, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Morning dew clings to the leaves and stem of a red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) at the Mineral Park Campground in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Morning dew clings to the petals of a daisy growing on the bank of the Cascade River in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Morning mist envelopes an old growth stand of Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) and coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) along Cascade River Road, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Detail of flowering plant in Lone Fir Campground, North Cascades Scenic Highway Corridor, Washington.
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  • Devil's club (Oplopanax horridus) leaves holding rain water on the trail to Lake Ann, North Cascades Scenic Highway Corridor, Washington.
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  • Parmenter Welty hikes a corniced ridge between Ann and Rainy Lakes, North Cascades Scenic Highway Corridor, Washington.
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  • Cars drive Highway 20 at night over Washington Pass, below Liberty Bell and the Early Winter Spires, North Cascades Scenic Highway Corridor, Washington.
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  • The trunks of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) blurred by camera motion, Okanogan National Forest, Washington.
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  • A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) stands in flowering meadow in Okanogan National Forest, Washington.
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  • A small spider sits on a lupin (Lupinus sp.) in a meadow in Okanogan National Forest, Washington.
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  • A butterfly with a broken wing feeds on the nectar of a daisy in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • A small spider stands guard on a large foxglove (Digitalis sp.) in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • A spider hangs from its web above a lush patch of daisies and foxglove (Digitalis sp.) in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Parmenter and Liana Welty hike an unmaintained Forest Service road in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • A small waterfall trickles into Bacon Creek, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) stripped of their bark in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The bark, easily removed by making a cut at the base and peeling upward, is traditionally used for making rope, clothing, and other soft goods. Harvesting in single strips avoids killing the tree.
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  • Oxbow bend in Bacon Creek, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Looking up from below leaves of devil's club (Oplopanax horridus) along Diobsud Creek Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • A waterfall on Diobsud Creek, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Liana Welty hikes through lush forest along Diobsud Creek Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Ian Derrington, sweaty from the steep ascent, climbs towards Damnation Peak in the Bacon Creek drainage, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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