Krause Bottom is a
riparian forest area on the
Elwha River
The Elwha River is a river on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. From its source at Elwha snowfinger in the Olympic Mountains, it flows generally north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Most of the river's cou ...
along the
Geyser Valley trail in
Olympic National Park,
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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. It contains a forest of
bigleaf maple,
red alder
''Alnus rubra'', the red alder,
is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to western North America (Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana).
Description
Red alder is the largest species of alder in North A ...
, and
black cottonwood. The area around it was initially cleared by homesteaders in the late 1890s, but evidence of their activities is difficult to see today.
Landforms of Clallam County, Washington
Landforms of Olympic National Park
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