Protecting and restoring our Olympic forest
and aquatic ecosystems



Dosewallips Washout


Over three hundred feet of the Dosewallips road on Olympic National Forest washed out in January 2002, about ten miles west of Highway 101 at Brinnon and five miles shy of its end at Muscott Flat. Since that time, a great deal of community debate and bureaucratic to-and-fro have taken place in determining the proper method of responding to this dilemma. The washout itself has now grown to six hundred feet in length from successive winter storms. Read complete article...

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Dose Road Failure

 
 

Road washout from the east.  

 

Road washout from the west.  


Eroding cut.

 
 

Rock slide.  

 

Road failure.  


Plugged culvert.

 
 

Road erosion.  

 

Failing gabions.  


Potential loss of
300-year old Douglas fir.


 
 

Recreationists flock to the Dose

 

 





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