Willapa National Wildlife Refuge

We stopped by here while we were in town and it was a pretty great place to bring our dog to stretch her legs after a long drive.
8 years ago (28-10-2017)

Many[who?] argue that the next stage of sociocultural evolution consists of a merger with technology, especially information processing technology. Several cumulative major transitions of evolution have transformed life through key innovations in information storage and replication, including RNA, DNA, multicellularity, and also language and culture as inter-human information processing systems.[46][47] in this sense it can be argued that the carbon-based biosphere has generated a cognitive system (humans) capable of creating technology that will result in a comparable evolutionary transition. "Digital information has reached a similar magnitude to information in the biosphere. It increases exponentially, exhibits high-fidelity replication, evolves through differential fitness, is expressed through artificial intelligence (AI), and has facility for virtually limitless recombination. Like previous evolutionary transitions, the potential symbiosis between biological and digital information will reach a critical point where these codes could compete via natural selection. Alternatively, this fusion could create a higher-level superorganism employing a low-conflict division of labor in performing informational tasks...humans already embrace fusions of biology and technology. We spend most of our waking time communicating through digitally mediated channels, ...most transactions on the stock market are executed by automated trading algorithms, and our electric grids are in the hands of artificial intelligence. With one in three marriages in America beginning online, digital algorithms are also taking a role in human pair bonding and reproduction".[45]
8 years ago (27-09-2017)

Wish I had more time to explore! If you like trees and the outdoors than this is a place that you should stop by on your next road trip. There is also a bathroom here.
8 years ago (16-08-2017)

The Willapa National Wildlife Refuge was just great! We stopped by on a slightly gloomy and rainy April afternoon, but the boardwalk and trail were a treat. Not terribly difficult of a hike, but quite the enjoyable loop. There is a wonderful diversity of flowers, mosses, bugs, birds, and more. The placards on the trail add some fun for little ones with interesting trivia. The trails were a touch muddy and washed out, but given the time of year absolutely expected. For a nice afternoon hike it was just great.
8 years ago (17-04-2017)

Wonderful nature art trail, definitely worth a stop. Restrooms open weekdays only.
8 years ago (19-09-2017)