Tools of the Trade
This power tool is equally likely to be found in the hands of a logger as it is the villain of a horror movie.
What is a chainsaw?
This tree is the most important species for lumber in the country.
What is Douglas-fir?
Known for being smaller and sneakier than its cousins to the east, this animal is just as likely to be found wandering Ocean Shores as it is the forest.
What is blacktail deer?
This local National Forest includes popular destinations like Lake Quinault and Wynoochee Lake.
What is Olympic National Forest?
This tool is used to measure how wide a tree is.
What is a diameter tape?
This is the state tree of Washington.
What is western hemlock?
This animal will commonly eat tree bark for its first meal in the spring after taking a winter-long nap.
What is a black bear?
This National Forest in southwest Washington shares its name with the first chief of the Forest Service.
What is the Gifford Pinchot National Forest?
Once treated as a weed, this tree helps put nitrogen into the soil thanks to bacteria that grow on its roots.
What is red alder?
Relying on cool and clean water, this animal starts and ends life in forest streams.
What are salmon?
This National Forest abuts both the North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Park.
What is Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest?
This tool can be used to get a bird's-eye view of the forest.
What is a UAS?
Known to Indigenous people as "the tree of life", this tree's bark is traditionally used to make baskets, hats, and other household goods.
What is western redcedar?
This ferocious animal, known to many as the timber tiger, will bark menacingly to warn you when you enter its territory.
What is a chipmunk?
What is the Colville National Forest?
The most important tool for working in the woods is carried between your ears.
What is your brain?
Despite its prickly attitude, this tree is music to many peoples' ear and can literally send you flying.
What is Stika spruce?
A reclusive creature, this hairy biped can only be captured on video cameras as a blurry shape.
Who is Sasquatch?
This National Forest includes the Blue Mountains and reaches into Oregon as well as southeast Washington.
What is the Umatilla National Forest?