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They're BIG out here! And hundreds of years old!
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The entire Pacific Northwest USED to be covered in Giants like these.
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They're covered in moss...
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...because they get wet a LOT here...it's one of the rainiest places on earth!
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Be pretty damned hard for THIS forest to catch on fire....
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It was a hot sunny day....but it's lush cool and green here...just the way Beavers like it!
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Who you callin' a Hoh?
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Sometimes the big trees fall over...
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Sometimes they die and sit there for years...
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But things don't catch fire here very often...
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Despite the fact this forest isn't being "managed" by anyone but 'ol Mother Nature...
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Been a lot of talk from Humans about "managing" the forest, and the "manager" people have a point...
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...if you clear-cut the trees there won't be anything to catch fire....but somehow there managed to BE a forest before it was "managed".