“For eight hundred years I have lived here, through wind, the fire and the snow.” Lyrical story of a Douglas fir, watching the salmon return every summer and young owls learning to fly, the river flowing nearby, the wind carrying its song. Gorgeous illustrations capture the enchantment of the Pacific rain forest. (Picture book)

Beautifully illustrated story of a coho salmon egg that hatches in fall, swims down river to the ocean in the spring, and returns to the creek to lay her own eggs. (Picture book)

All about those sea otters that live in the waters around the Olympic Peninsula. Find out why otters keep clean (to stay warm), how they move (they use their tail like a paddle to steer), how they eat (in the water, floating on their back). (Picture book)

Get out your binoculars to get a better look at the magnificent Bald Eagles that inhabit the Olympic Peninsula. How eagles fly, what eagles eat (favorite food is rabbits), where eagles nest, how baby eagles protect themselves, and tips for eagle watching. (Picture book)

A seed in the forest grows into a fir tree two hundred feet tall. The tree is home to salamanders and bears under the roots, birds and bats, lichen and mosses, pine martens, spotted owls, flying squirrels on its branches, and white butterflies in the upper boughs. Sparkling illustrations. (Picture book)