About 100 Native American youths and tribal educational leaders from the Makah, Quileute, Hoh, Quinault, Lower Elwha, Klallam, and the Jamestown S’Klallam tribes gathered at the beautiful Olympic Natural Resources Center facility in Forks for the University of Washington's Native Career Planning Day.
Articles from the Peninsula Daily News and the Forks ForumDid you know that the architects of the Olympic Natural Resource Center, when designing the structure for the 40-acre site:
- had to consider rainfall up to 50 inches per month and winds reaching 100 mph
- chose outdoor walkways to reduce the circulation of muddy, wet boots on slippery hallway floors
- honored the idea of "Working Families = Working Forests" by evoking a timber image without using old growth wood.
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