Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reported

In December, the one road leading to Olympic National Park’s Hoh Rain Forest, the quietest place in the country, closed indefinitely due to washout damage. Local agencies were having trouble securing federal funding to make repairs, and business owners in Forks, the nearby gateway town that’s entirely dependent on tourism, were beginning to panic.

On Thursday morning, the people of Forks breathed a collective sigh of relief. Through an unusual and unprecedented funding arrangement, which required the town itself to raise and contribute thousands of dollars, the road is on its way to being repaired.

Source: Gateway town fights to reopen Olympic National Park’s quiet rainforest