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Article: WILD ABOUT RAINIER PARK IS A GREAT PLACE TO SEE ANIMALS IN THEIR NATURAL HABITATS.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 17, 1999
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Mount Rainier National Park is an island of wildlife diversity, a home to 191 species and a place where visitors can see wildlife living largely undisturbed in natural habitat.
The park hosts abundant populations of typical Pacific Northwest animals, including elk, deer, bear, beaver, bobcat, cougar, mountain goat, fox, marmot, marten, mink, coyote, raccoon, porcupine, weasel and others.
Spotted owls do live in the park, and marbled murrelets, an endangered seabird that nests in old-growth trees, are believed to live there. A few wild chinook salmon, proposed for protection as a threatened species earlier this year, are believed to spawn in the White ...