The Dosewallips River (pronounced "doh'-si-wall-ips"[1]) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Geography The Olympic Peninsula is home to some of the only Temperate rain forests in the world including the Hoh, Queets, and Quinault A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It rises near Mount Anderson in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park and drains to Hood Canal and thence to the Pacific Ocean. Mount Anderson is a high peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. The Olympic Mountains are a Mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of western Washington in the United States. Olympic National Park is located in the US state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. Hood Canal is a Fjord off Puget Sound in the US state of Washington. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions
The river originates in two forks, which join about five miles from the headwaters. The National Park Service maintains trails and campsites along both forks, including one at the fork itself. The National Park Service ( NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation The road leading to the trailhead has been washed out in January of 2002[2], and the ranger station near the trailhead has been abandoned.
The entire estuary of the Dosewallips is within Dosewallips State Park and ongoing restoration efforts led by Wild Fish Conservancy, the Port Gamble S'Kalallam Tribe, and the Hood Canal Coordinating Council are intended to improve salmon habitat through the reconnection of the river to its historical floodplain. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open Salmon is the common name for several species of Fish of the family Salmonidae. ||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||}A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a Stream or River that experiences occasional or periodic
The name Dosewallips comes from a Twana Indian myth about a man named Dos-wail-opsh who was turned into a mountain at the river's source. Skokomish, also known as the Twana, are a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. [3]
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References
- ^ Goode, J. This is a list of rivers in the US state of Washington. By Drainage Basin This list is arranged by drainage basin with respective tributaries Paul; Veregin Howard, Ph. D. (June 2006). Rand McNally Goode's World Atlas, 21 edition, Rand McNally & Company, 288. ISBN 0528853392. Retrieved on 2008-03-10. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing
- ^ Washington Trails Association
- ^ Phillips, James W. (1971). Washington State Place Names. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-95158-3.
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