W ASHINGTON STATE NATURAL AREA PRESERVE [NAP] | ESTABLISHED 1996 Welcome to Trout Lake NAP

Exceptional Places DID YOU KNOW? Wetlands are among the most Quality examples of ’s native his nationally recognized, biologically productive systems in grasslands, woodlands, marshes and more are the world, similar to rain forests protected in Natural Areas managed by the high quality wetland is home in the diversity of species Department of Natural Resources (DNR). to hundreds of plant species, they support. These special sites offer opportunities for research more than 160 species of birds, and the and education. Some have interpretive or

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a . Creek West Tiger Camas d Mountain Rattlesnake Meadows Dry Carlisle Mountain Gulch k t Skookum Inlet . Bog Scenic Area e Kennedy M Creek Marcellus North Bay Woodard Bay C Sand & Goose Islands N Mima lot to study here, including plants, Whitcomb Flats Chehalis o Mounds Bald Hill r r Elk River River Rocky t Prairie e h Gunpowder Island Niawiakum River Selah Cliffs Kahlotus e R Ridgetop Willapa Divide k d South Nemah . Teal Slough Ellsworth Creek R animals and how wetlands Hendrickson d Canyon Merrill Klickitat Lake Scenic River . Monte Cristo Trout Lake Cleveland Natural Areas Shrub Steppe White Table Badger Mountain Salmon Natural Resources Conservation Area Oak Gulch Columbia work. Columbia Falls Natural Area Preserve Hills AS OF JUNE 2003 Lake Trail For more information contact the DNR Natural Areas Program, Miles L Trout a Lake Southeast Region at Natural Area 0 0.5 k e Creek Preserve (509) 925-8510 You are here R

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Mt. Adams Rd. Natural Resources 141 www.dnr.wa.gov PRADO & BLANCHE SOBOTTKE. LUIS JEANNE DEMOREST, APPLEGATE, TEAM: LAURA INTERPRETIVE SIGN W ASHINGTON NATURAL AREA PRESERVE | TROUT LAKE The making and unmaking of a lake

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hen a massive avalanche of volcanic debris

Probable flowed off Mt. Adams about 6,000 years ago, source of Trout Lake Glacial ice a torrent of mud surged down river and creek valleys, mudflow Mt. Adams flowing as far as Husum, 35 miles away. Up to 65 feet thick, this mudflow, 12,276 feet or lahar, raised the floor of the White Salmon River valley, damming

Trout Lake Creek and allowing Trout Lake to form. T L T R O U A K E — CIRCA 1900 — Indian Possible Since then, sediments and organic matter Heaven path of Volcanic Field mudflow have washed into Trout Lake, slowly filling it in.

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MAP ADAPTED FROM VALLANCE, U VALLANCE, FROM ADAPTED MAP W ASHINGTON Husum KEITH McCOY r e v Local historian, writing i R Underwood t for the White Salmon a it er White Salmon k Enterprise, 2002 Riv ic Columbia Bingen Kl Hood River ia River Columb OREGON Tr them to to meet stagecoaches that would carry folks to ride sternwheelers up the from Portland By in then-remote Trout Lake Valley. Two years later, a road from n out Lake for recreation. the early I 1900 White Salmon eased the way for many more settlers. s, hotels had been built near the lake, enticing 1880 Stagecoaches and sternwheelers W ASHINGTON STATE NATURAL AREA PRESERVE , the Stoller family arrived to build the first homestead

a well known sternwheeler of of ▲ the Columbia River. The Bailey Gatzert, N fishing lakes in the the best known ...it became one of Enterprise, 2002 for Local historian, writing KEITH McCOY orthwest. the White Salmon

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STERNWHEELER PHOTO: COLUMBIA GORGE DISCOVERY CENTER / WASCO COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM. W ASHINGTON STATE NATURAL AREA PRESERVE | TROUT LAKE Huckleberries and horseraces

▲ Big Huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) , SPOKANE WASHINGTON.

lickitat (Xwalxwaipam), Wishram (Wishxam), and other ancestors of the Yakama Nation traditionally used the Trout Lake area. Some called it shaxshax-mi, or “fish-eating bird of the lake.” Indians gathered south of here in the Indian Woman Image can be used again to fish and trade, and only if permission is granted. See MAC Museum Rights & Permissions Files west of here in what is now the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to gather huckleberries and to race horses. Trout Lake was probably a rest stop on their journeys.

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Local cedar trees SOCIETY HISTORICAL STATE / EASTERN WASHINGTON & CULTURE OF ARTS MUSEUM WOMAN: NORTHWEST YAKAMA JEANNIE DEMOREST. PHOTO: ASKETS B show sign of tribal use — careful stripping of bark, such as for making baskets like these for gathering huckleberries. W ASHINGTON STATE NATURAL AREA PRESERVE | TROUT LAKE Migratory birds—Travelers from afar

▲ Northern (”Bullock’s”) Oriole (Icterus galbula) — a Neotropical migrant. See below right.

rout Lake is important for many migratory birds because it is a nesting site and rest stop with clean water, abundant food and shelter–like a gas station, restaurant and hotel for traveling birds. Migratory birds need many of these places on their long migration routes. Without enough places to rest, refuel and reproduce, the birds’ lives (and species) are put at risk. Many such sites already have been lost through human activities.

PACIFIC FLYWAY Migratory birds that visit the Pacific Northwest usually travel along the Pacific Flyway. Some birds may travel through five or more countries from ▲ Sandhill Crane Trout Alaska into Central and South Lake (Grus canadensis) — A TLANTIC America. Trout Lake hosts one of the migratory birds OCEAN 50 species of such Neotropical that use Trout Lake as a migrants, and seven of those have rest stop. This crane PACIFIC declining populations in is on the state list of OCEAN Washington.

ORTHERN (”BULLOCK’S”) ORIOLE ILLUSTRATION BY DAMON LITTLE. DAMON BY ILLUSTRATION ORIOLE (”BULLOCK’S”) ORTHERN endangered species. N ▲

Tr out Lake in winter. noticed? habitats have you What different the creek in winter. summer in the They lay eggs in shallow water in spring, spend the These frogs need a main reason this wetland is protected. Spotted Frogs still exist, and that’s the in Washington where Oregon routplaces Lake is one of the few

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FROG PHOTO: WILLIAM LEONARD. RIGHT: DNR. ABOVE LEFT: LAURA APPLEGATE. ▼ emerging from the water. such as sedges, rushes and grasses which features non-woody plants edge of the emergent wetland, eggs in the shallow water at the r esearchers look for frog

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