<P> The formal record of a proposal for a new national park on the Olympic Peninsula begins with the expeditions of well - known figures Lieutenant Joseph O'Neil and Judge James Wickersham, during the 1890s . These notables met in the Olympic wilderness while exploring, and subsequently combined their political efforts to have the area placed within some protected status . On February 22, 1897, President Grover Cleveland created the Olympic Forest Reserve, which became Olympic National Forest in 1907 . Following unsuccessful efforts in the Washington State Legislature to further protect the area in the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt created Mount Olympus National Monument in 1909, primarily to protect the subalpine calving grounds and summer range of the Roosevelt elk herds native to the Olympics . </P> <P> Public desire for preservation of some of the area grew until President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a national park in 1938 . Even after ONP was declared a park, though, illegal logging continued in the park, and political battles continue to this day over the incredibly valuable timber contained within its boundaries . Logging continues on the Olympic Peninsula, but not within the park . A book detailing the history of the fight for ONP's timber is Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation by Carsten Lien . </P> <P> Animals that inhabit this national park are chipmunks, squirrels, skunks, six species of bats, weasels, coyotes, muskrats, fishers, river otters, beavers, red foxes, mountain goats, martens, bobcats, black bears, Canadian lynxes, moles, snowshoe hares, shrews, and cougars . Whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals, and sea otters swim near this park offshore . Birds that fly in this park including raptors are Winter wrens, and gray jays, Hammond's flycatchers, Wilson's warblers, Blue Grouses, Pine siskins, ravens, spotted owls, Red - breasted nuthatches, Golden - crowned kinglets, Chestnut - backed chickadees, Swainson's thrushes, Red crossbills, Hermit thrushes, Olive - sided flycatchers, bald eagles, Western tanagers, Northern pygmy owls, Townsend's warblers, Townsend's solitaires, Vaux's swifts, band - tailed pigeons, and evening grosbeaks . </P> <P> There are several roads in the park, but none penetrate far into the interior . The park features a network of hiking trails, although the size and remoteness means that it will usually take more than a weekend to get to the high country in the interior . The sights of the rain forest, with plants run riot and dozens of hues of green, are well worth the possibility of rain sometime during the trip, although months of July, August and September frequently have long dry spells . </P>

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