Water Wisdom
This river is a key regional water source and drives decisions around energy, water use, and ecosystem health.
What is the Columbia River?
This National park in Washington state is the 5th oldest in the country, established in 1899.
What is Mt. Rainier National Park
A place to find views of peaks like Little Annapurna, High Priest, as well as Colchuck and Leprechaun Lakes in this beautiful, rugged area.
What are the Enchantments?
This state has a National Park that is the home of some of the fattest bears, and also hosts the "Fat Bear Week" contest in the Fall!
(Bonus points for naming the park)
What is Alaska?
What is Katmai National Park?
Though it makes up only 2% of the state of Washington's territory, this National Park accounts for 56% of its mushroom diversity.
What is Olympic National Park?
These green infrastructure installations in Portland are designed to slow and filter stormwater in roadways.
What are green streets?
Washington state is the largest US producer of this crop, a key ingredient in a very popular beverage
What are Hops!
Located near Olympia, this 111,000-acre forest is a popular destination for mountain biking, hiking, and equestrian use.
What is Capitol State Forest?
This year's Fat Bear Week winner (a male named "Chunk") clocked in at over 1,200lbs. This species of bear is the 2nd largest in North America.
What is the Brown Bear?
Specifically the Kodiak bear/Coastal Brown Bear.
This type of fungi forms complex symbiotic relationships with the roots of trees and other plants, providing extra water and nutrients, receiving carbohydrates in return.
What is mycorrhizal fungi?
These colorful amphibians depend on clean water in PNW forests to survive.
What are newts or salamanders?
This indigenous group was the original inhabitants of what is now the city of Seattle
Who are the Duwamish people?
Though its name might suggest differently, you're much more likely to have a run-in with a cougar in this Issaquah forest.
What is Tiger Mountain (State) Forest?
This is the minimum amount of calories that a bear needs to eat per day in the summer and fall in order to survive hibernation.
20,000 calories
This national park allows visitors to pick one gallon of edible fungi per person per day. Harvesting for commercial use is not permitted.
What is Mt. Rainier National Park?
This town in Washington actually gets more rainfall than Seattle—about 140 inches a year.
What is Forks, WA?
The "scablands" of eastern Washington are a landscape of channels of basalt rock, buttes, and basins formed by this geographic event
What are cataclysmic floods?
Known more specifically as the Missoula floods, these were caused by the breaking of glacial ice dams. (also acceptable answers)
This coastal Oregon forest could be considered "cheesy"
What is Tillamook State Forest?
This is the primary species of salmon that bears eat in North America in preparation for hibernation.
Bonus points for listing how many calories are in one of these salmon!
What is the Sockeye Salmon.
Between 4,000-4,500 calories per fish!
This tree in Washington makes symbiotic associations with nearly 2,000 fungal species.
What is the Douglas-Fir?
Rain shadows in the PNW are caused by this atmospheric process as air masses rise and cool over mountain ranges.
What is orographic lift?
Four federal agencies manage federal land in the US: the US National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Bureau of Land Management, and the US Forest Service.
This percentage of Washington's land is federally managed (you can round to the nearest 5%)
What is 30%?
More specifically, 28.6% of Washington land is federally managed!
This forest is home to the Dark Divide trail, Jumbo Peak, and offers some stunning views of Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens, and Mount Adams
What is Gifford Pinchot National Forest
A bear's typical body temperature is around 100°F.
This is the temperature that a bear lowers its body temperature to, in order to prepare for hibernation.
Around 88°F.
In 1992 there was a drastic increase in mushroom harvesting. This amount (kg) of wild edible mushrooms worth $40 million were harvested from the Pacific Northwest raising conservation concerns.
What is 2 million kg?