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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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  • Ian Derrington hikes the summit ridge of Damnation Peak towards Mount Triumph, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Sunset view into Bacon Creek from the boundary between Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Low clouds fill the valley at sunrise at the base of Damnation Peak in North Cascades National Park, Washington. Primus Peak is visible in the distance.
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  • Mount Triumph (right) rises above low clouds at sunrise, North Cascades National Park, Washington. Mount Terror, Mount Degenhardt, and Pyramid Peak, of the remote Picket Range, are visible in the distance.
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  • Low clouds shroud a forested ridge at the base of Damnation Peak, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Mountains rise above low clouds, North Cascades National Park, Washington. The Rake, Mount Terror, Mount Degenhardt, and Pyramid Peak - of the remote Picket Range - are visible through a notch below Mount Triumph.
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  • Ethan Welty places his hand on the trunk of a giant old-growth western redcedar (Thuja plicata) along the Baker River Trail in Mount Baker National Forest, Washington.
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  • A common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) feels the air with its tongue along the Baker River Trail, Mount Baker National Forest, Washington.
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  • Black flies swarm flowers on the Hidden Lake Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Stephen Byrne looks down into the Cascade River drainage from the summit of Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Moonrise over Spider Mountain and Mount Formidable from Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Moonrise at dusk over Spider Mountain and Mount Formidable, seen from Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • A young woman watches the sunset from the fire lookout cabin on the summit of Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Stephen Byrne watches the sunset from the fire lookout cabin on the summit of Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • A campfire glows at night below Hidden Lake Peaks, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • Stephen Byrne stands on a ridge overlooking Hidden Lake, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
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  • A field of corn lilies (Veratrum sp.) on the Hidden Lake Trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
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  • Kevin Steffa takes pictures at sunset from a ridge below Golden Horn, Okanogan National Forest, Washington.
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