4-year-old bitten by mountain lion at national park
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Rangers responded to the attack Sunday near Hurricane Ridge, one of the most popular spots in the park. The following day, rangers killed the animal.
Olympic is home to four separate rain forests, 73 miles of rugged Pacific coastline and the Olympic Mountain range, with peaks up to 8,000 feet high. It has gorgeous waterfalls, undeveloped ...
Rangers searched for the cougar immediately after the attack and were later joined by a canine team, the National Park Service said in a statement.
Cleanup crews are working to contain petroleum that leaked from a tanker truck that crashed and flipped upside down on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, spilling fuel into a tributary of a river that was recently restored for salmon runs.