OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK
APPENDIX
A note on sourcing: Fragments attributed to "Evans, Finding Our Park" represent original writing by Marq Evans synthesizing research. Where such fragments draw on a specific source's argument or data, that source is noted after "Research:". Fragments from named authors are quoted or closely paraphrased from the cited work. The appendix credits by fragment number in the manner of David Shields' Reality Hunger.
1 — Jacilee Wray (ed.), Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula, 2nd ed. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) 2 — Wikipedia, "Quileute language"; TwilightVibes.com, "The Complete Quileute Legend: Real History vs. Twilight Fiction" (2025) 3 — Quileute Nation, quileutenation.org; Quileute Indian Tribe Historical Marker, La Push, WA 4 — Quileute Nation, quileutenation.org; Wikipedia, "Quileute" 5 — Greg Lamm, "The Sacred Petroglyphs of Ozette Beach" (2018); Outdoor Society, "Makah Tribal Petroglyphs Vandalized in Olympic National Park" (2018) 6 — Makah Cultural and Research Center, makahmuseum.com; SAH Archipedia, "Ozette Archaeological Site" (2012); Archaeology Magazine (September/October 2022) 7 — Washington State Magazine, "The Home of My Family: Ozette, the Makahs, and Doc Daugherty" (2009); Makah Cultural and Research Center, makahmuseum.com 8 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Makah Tribe cultural documentation, makah.com 9 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Jay Powell, Our Land: Quileute Territory (University of Washington Press, 2022); Peninsula Daily News, "The Victory of 'Our Land: Quileute Territory'" (2023) [Note: the specific "Fool" claim requires verification against Powell's text before publication] 10 — Wray (ed.), Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula (2014) 11 — Katherine Paul (Black Belt Eagle Scout), album notes, The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek, 2022). Paul is Swinomish/Iñupiaq, born and raised on the Swinomish Reservation adjacent to the Olympic Peninsula. 12 — Evans, Finding Our Park 13 — Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Knopf, 1990) 14 — Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 15 — Egan, The Good Rain (1990), quoting Roger Tory Peterson 16 — Jude Evans, music camp application essay (2026) 17 — Katherine Paul, interview, GoSkagit (2023) 18 — Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 19 — Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (Free Press, 2009) 20 — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (University of Chicago Press, 1976) 21 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (2009) 22 — Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books, 2016) 23 — Jude Evans, music camp application essay (2026) 24 — Evans, Finding Our Park 25 — FDR, Lake Crescent Lodge, September 1937; quoted in Tim McNulty, National Parks Traveler (2013) 26 — Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; quoted in Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 27 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Tim McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009); Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington 28 — Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) 29 — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Ticknor and Fields, 1854) 30 — Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), interview, No Ripcord (2012) 31 — Phil Elverum, interview, No Ripcord (2012) 32 — Preston, The Wild Trees (2007) 33 — Jude Evans, music camp application essay (2026) 34 — David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (Harcourt Brace, 1994) 35 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (2009) 36 — Evans, Finding Our Park 37 — Evans, Finding Our Park 38 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: HikingGuy.com, "Hoh River Trail to Blue Glacier Hike Guide"; Quileute language documentation, quileutenation.org 39 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Olympic Hiking Co., hikeolympic.com; Washington Trails Association, wta.org 40 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (2009) 41 — Evans, Finding Our Park 42 — Anonymous visitor, Atlas Obscura comments, Hall of Mosses (n.d.) 43 — Jim Harrison, Dalva (E.P. Dutton, 1988) 44 — Evans, Finding Our Park 45 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Parks Collecting, "Hoh Rain Forest: Hall of Mosses & Spruce Nature Trail Guide" (2026) 46 — Jude Evans, overheard by Marq Evans (2024) 47 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: American Museum of Natural History, Elwha restoration documentation 48 — Preston, The Wild Trees (2007) 49 — Preston, The Wild Trees (2007) 50 — Phil Elverum, interview, Anacortes Magazine (2012) 51 — Raymond Carver, "Late Fragment," A New Path to the Waterfall (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989); inscription, Ocean View Cemetery, Port Angeles, WA 52 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Peninsula College, Carver Festival program (2024); Tess Gallagher, author biography 53 — Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976), p.70 54 — Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, ed. William White (Scribner, 1967), pp.219-20; originally published Toronto Star Weekly, c.1920 55 — Jim Harrison, True North (Grove Press, 2004), p.157 56 — Thoreau, Walden (1854) 57 — Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) 58 — Evans, Finding Our Park 59 — Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (2009) 60 — American Museum of Natural History, Elwha restoration documentation; Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, elwha.org 61 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe cultural documentation, elwha.org 62 — Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) 63 — Regional Forester C.J. Buck, testimony, c.1935; quoted in Ben W. Twight, Organizational Values and Political Power: The Forest Service Versus the Olympic National Park (Penn State University Press, 1983), p.62; cited in HistoryLink.org [Note: verify exact Buck wording against Twight's text before publication] 64 — Evans, Finding Our Park 65 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: HistoryLink.org; Post Alley, "How Harold L. Ickes Saved Olympic Peninsula Forests" (2025); Ken Burns, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Episode 5 (PBS, 2009) 66 — FDR, October 1, 1937; quoted in Post Alley, "How Harold L. Ickes Saved Olympic Peninsula Forests" (2025); HistoryLink.org 67 — FDR, Lake Crescent Lodge, September 1937; McNulty, National Parks Traveler (2013) 68 — Evans, Finding Our Park 69 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: National Parks Conservation Association, "An Elk National Park?" (2019); myportangeles.com, "Roosevelt Elk" 70 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: NPCA, "An Elk National Park?" (2019); Seattle Mail and Herald editorial, quoted in NPCA (2019); GraysHarborTalk.com, "Finding the Roosevelt Elk in Olympic National Park" (2017) 71 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Wikipedia, "Roosevelt elk"; NPCA, "An Elk National Park?" (2019) 72 — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Oxford University Press, 1949) 73 — Katherine Paul, interview, GoSkagit (2023) 74 — Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) 75 — The Microphones (Phil Elverum), "My Roots Are Strong and Deep," The Glow Pt. 2 (K Records, 2001) 76 — Gary Snyder, "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout," Riprap (Origin Press, 1959) 77 — Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 78 — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Harper & Row, 1982) 79 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Wikipedia, "Restoration of the Elwha River"; Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, elwha.org 80 — Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) 81 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (2009) 82 — Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (North Point Press, 1990) 83 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Katherine Paul, Black Belt Eagle Scout website (2022) 84 — Katherine Paul, The Land, The Water, The Sky album notes (Saddle Creek, 2022) 85 — Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949) 86 — Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 87 — Gordon Hempton, interview, On Being with Krista Tippett (2012) 88 — Leopold, "Engineering and Conservation," in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991) 89 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: HistoryLink.org; Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle (John H. Tilton, 1863) 90 — Theodore Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle (1863); quoted in Egan, The Good Rain (1990) 91 — Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence (2009) 92 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (2009) 93 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: HistoryLink.org; Winthrop, The Canoe and the Saddle (1863) 94 — Hempton, quoted in KING 5 Evening (2019) 95 — Phil Elverum, interview, The Skinny (2013) 96 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: John Suiter, Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades (Counterpoint, 2002); Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (Viking Press, 1958) 97 — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper's Magazine Press, 1974) 98 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Wray (ed.), Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula (2014) 99 — Thoreau, Walden (1854) 100 — Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold (Oxford University Press, 1953) 101 — William B. Greeley, War Production Board testimony, 1942; quoted in Carsten Lien, Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation (Sierra Club Books, 1991), p.213; cited in HistoryLink.org 102 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: HistoryLink.org 103 — The Mountaineers, "How the Mountaineers Helped Create Olympic National Park," The Mountaineer (2016) 104 — The Mountaineers (2016); Evans, Finding Our Park 105 — Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) 106 — Black Belt Eagle Scout website; Katherine Paul, interview, Seattle Times (2023) 107 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (2009) 108 — Thoreau, Walden (1854) 109 — Phil Elverum, interview, ALARM Magazine (2011) 110 — Preston, The Wild Trees (2007) 111 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe oral history; Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, elwha.org 112 — Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006) 113 — National Parks Conservation Association, "Trouble Ahead: How Staffing Cuts Threaten Air, Water and Wildlife" (June 2025) 114 — Washington State Standard, "National Park Service firings hit Mount Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades" (February 21, 2025); Associated Press (February 14, 2025) 115 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Democracy Forward, "Examples of Censorship from NPCA et al. v. Department of the Interior" (February 2026); Trump Executive Order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" (March 27, 2025) 116 — Bernard DeVoto, "The West Against Itself," Harper's Monthly, January 1947, pp.1-13 117 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: DeVoto, "The West Against Itself" (1947); DeVoto, preface to The Easy Chair (Houghton Mifflin, 1955) 118 — DeVoto, "The West Against Itself," Harper's Monthly, January 1947 119 — Wallace Stegner, "The Wilderness Letter," written to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (December 3, 1960); reprinted in The Sound of Mountain Water (Doubleday, 1969) 120 — The Microphones (Phil Elverum), "My Warm Blood," The Glow Pt. 2 (K Records, 2001) 121 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: The Nature of Music, "Sitka Spruce: Conflicts Over Old Growth and Plantations" (2023) 122 — Harold Ickes, diary entry, n.d.; Ickes, speech, Seattle, September 1938; quoted in McNulty, National Parks Traveler (2013) 123 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: McNulty, Olympic National Park: A Natural History (2009) 124 — Evans, Finding Our Park 125 — Evans, Finding Our Park. Research: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2013). Note: Kimmerer's grammar of animacy argument uses "bay" as her primary example. The application to the Hoh River is an Evans synthesis of her argument. 126 — Evans, Finding Our Park 127 — Evans, Finding Our Park 128 — Evans, Finding Our Park 129 — Evans, Finding Our Park; Jude Evans, music camp application essay (2026)