- This small site, located near the mouth of the Naselle River, supports a remnant coastal old growth forest represented by ancient western red-cedar and Sitka spruce trees. This forest provides homes for marbled murrelets and spotted owls, as well as for Dunn’s and Van Dyke’s salamanders, Vaux’s swifts, and pileated woodpeckers. Easily accessible from Highway 101, and adjacent to a larger conservation landscape, the site has a high potential for educational purposes to illustrate a coastal forest ecosystem.
- Jordanus (constellation)
Jordanus (the Jordan River) was a constellation introduced in 1612 (or 1613) on a globe by Petrus Plancius and first shown in print by Jakob Bartsch in his book Usus Astronomicus Planisphaerii Stellati (1624). One end lay in the present-day Canes Venatici and then it flowed through the areas now occupied by Leo Minor and Lynx, ending near Camelopardalis. This constellation was not adopted in the atlases of Johann Bode and fell into disuse.