Washington Biodiversity Project
 
Washington Biodiversity Project

Remembering the past

contemplative hikers at lake

Photo:Interagency Comm Outdoor Recreation

Washington’s biodiversity is founded on its varied environments: the marine waters of Puget Sound and the outer coast, the temperate rainforests, the subalpine and alpine of the Olympics and Cascades, the drier, more open forests on the eastern flanks of the Cascades, the expansive shrub-steppe, the rolling hills of the Palouse, the mighty Columbia River, and more.