The Olympic Natural History site grew from two roots.
After I was introduced to digital photography, I realized that web publication offered more than the usual photo gallery or slideshow format. The web offers the opportunity to present natural history information like you might find in print natural history field guides, but with essentially no limits on the amount of text or the number of photos.
Furthermore, inspired by the wonderful bugguide.net, I thought a locally focussed forum for natural history could be more responsive than bugguide, which receives dozens of identification requests every week. Also, a forum is ideal for accumulation of information, which can remain accessible.
As with my Animal Communication Project, I think of Olympic Natural History as an open-source project, and welcome corrections, suggestions and contributions to the forum and to the photo pages or location pages You can e-mail me or post to the forum. All contributions and posts remain the intellectual property of the contributor. Please do not use any photos or text for any purpose without permission.