- This 499 acre preserve includes the headwaters of Schumacher Creek, the stream and associated wetlands, a shore-pine forested sphagnum bog, and an upland buffer. Within the wetlands and bog are a variety of plant communities that vary in their dominant vegetation. One of the plant communities found at Schumacher NAP, the Sitka alder/skunk cabbage-water parsley community, has a very restricted geographic range; it is only found in the Puget lowlands and is critically imperiled.
There are metaphysical problems, which cannot be disposed of by declaring them meaningless. For, as I have repeatedly said, they are “beyond physics” indeed and demand an act of faith. We have to accept this fact to be honest. There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that “belief” must be discarded and replaced by “the scientific method.”
Max Born, Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance (1964)