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The article focuses on the issue of poaching in the forests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It states that several pillagers try to steal moss, salal, fir boughs and other temperate rainforest plants from the Olympic National Park of Washington and mentions about the threats faced by investigating officers from illegal traffickers in forest products trade. It informs that some landowners in the rain forest have deployed private contractors for controlling poachers and also discusses the harvesting and the trade of timber and forest products which take place at the Olympic Peninsula. It also mentions about the impact of poaching on the environmental and labor conditions of this region.

Relates that the wettest spot in the contiguous United States, the western slopes of Mount Olympus get 240 inches of precipitations a year. Inclusion of Olympic National Park; Description of Washington's Olympic Peninsula; Trees, wildlife, plant and bird species that lived in the park. INSET: Being There: Olympic National Park.

The article discusses the Olympic National Park in Washington. The Olympic Peninsula, at the core of which lies the Park, has been fairly called America's last frontier. Warm, moisture-laden air drifting in from the Pacific rises and cools as it strikes the western slopes of the Olympic range. Spring comes late in the mountain meadows. At five thousand feet, snow lies on the northern slopes and the massed flowers reach their peak of bloom. Among the trees near timberline another struggle is apparent. It is not for light but for shelter. Groves of seedlings grow up in the protection of one old tree and there are several hundreds of trees in a single clump.