- The 159-acre Hendrickson Canyon NRCA contains Wahkiakum County’s last high quality, mature and old growth forest composed of 100 to 120 year old western hemlock, western red-cedar, and Sitka spruce, with scattered older trees. There are very few such remnant stands of mature or old growth forests remaining in the Willapa Hills of southwestern Washington. The site also supports a high-quality example of the western hemlock/Oregon oxalis community type and provides habitat for birds associated with old-growth forest conditions.
- Lake Tanganyika (Wikipedia)
Lake Tanganyika (/ˌtæŋɡənˈjiːkə, -ɡæn-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-; Kirundi: Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. It is the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second-largest by volume, and the second deepest, in all cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world’s longest freshwater lake. The lake is shared among four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC), Burundi, and [Zambia](/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambia/—with Tanzania (46%) and the DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It drains into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.