- Modern-day visitors to Olympia’s capitol campus are justly impressed by the main Legislative Building’s 287-foot-high dome and the equally broad-shouldered edifices that surround that central structure. Architecture critics have called the arrangement a watershed in American capitol construction. Yet building the Washington state capitol was in no way an easy task. Not only were there daunting costs and delays involved, but even upon its completion in 1928, critics derided it as a waste of tax dollars.
- Ink Blot Natural Area Preserve (dnr.wa.gov)
This low-elevation wetland and bog complex includes three parallel, elongated basins and their watersheds. Formed by glaciers, the basins are separated by glacial till with no connecting channels, and they support a mosaic of pond, herb and sedge wetlands, sphagnum bog, shrub carr, and second-growth forest buffer. The preserve’s wetland features are exceptional within the Puget Sound lowlands due to their species composition and intact condition. The preserve currently totals 184 acres.