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Scott McGee

@adventurephotography.forest2sea.com
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Nature photographer, fighting for our forests on the Olympic Peninsula of WA state. Also a Sr DevSecOps Engineer for CivicActions.com, making government more accessible and secure. adventurephotography.forest2sea.com elwhalegacyforests.org

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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 31/07/2025
'Doc Holliday' should absolutely be saved and alternative plantation forests logged instead! www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...
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This Puget Sound forest should be saved. There are better ways to log | Opinion
We should also use this pause to envision a plan for safeguarding logging jobs and mill operations, and imagine a new economic relationship between local governments’ budgets and timber sales. | Opini...
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 06/06/2025
I'm excited to share that 2 of my photos were selected as Highly Honored in the Nature's Best Photography National Parks 2024 photo contest and will be featured in their summer magazine! I'm hoping these images will help solidify support for our national parks. new.express.adobe.com/webpage/dB8G...
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2024 Nature's Best National Parks Top 30
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 22/04/2025
In honor of Earth Day, can you help us save the Doc Holliday forest? It's an amazing legacy forest near Highway 112 and Sadie Creek and it was already auctioned off to a timber company, but can still be saved. Here's an easy way to send a pre-made email to the DNR: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell the DNR not to clearcut "Doc Holliday"
Click “Start Writing” to urge DNR to save one of the oldest legacy forests in the Olympic Peninsula! Help us save a rare coastal rainforest ecosystem and culturally important forest for the S’Klallam...
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 22/03/2025
Beautiful sunrise over the Lake Sutherland, WA Valley on Tuesday with snow capped Baldy Ridge and Mount Storm King. :) #naturephotography #art #photography #sunrise #landscapephotography
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 13/03/2025
Please join the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition for the Spring Equinox, International Day of Forests and World Water Day in Port Angeles, WA! All events are free - March 20-22 2025. Details here: elwhalegacyforests.org/equinox-day-...
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 13/03/2025
I haven't entered any photo contests in a while (and have mixed emotions about them). Well, I finally entered one last year and I'm excited to share that 4 of my photos made it as semi-finalists in the 'Nature's Best - National Parks' 2024 photo contest! And two were taken on the same day... :)
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 27/02/2025
Please consider donating to support the Legacy Forest Defense Coalitions' lawsuits against @wadnr.bsky.social to stop the logging of 2,328 acres of critical legacy forests on WA state land, including two in the Elwha River watershed (Tree Well and Parched). www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund... #forests
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Donate to Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests, organized by Joshua Wright
In the fall of 2024, Washington's outgoing Commissioner of Publ… Joshua Wright needs your support for Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 02/02/2025
Thanks @tdonogh.bsky.social!
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 02/02/2025
Thank you, @andyzahn.bsky.social!
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 01/02/2025
Also first snow of the season on Lake Crescent with Pyramid Peak, Olympic National Park: #PNW #OlympicNationalPark #naturephotography
A beautiful blue lake surrounded by snow covered forested peaks, with storm clouds and bright blue sky above.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 01/02/2025
First snow of the season at Lake Sutherland, WA. We're happy to see it, but it's very late and doesn't portend good snow pack in the Olympic mountains, which means rivers will be very low in late summer, affecting water supply for Port Angeles. #naturephotography #art #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #snow
Aerial view of a blue lake in a valley, surrounded by forested mountains all covered in snow. A 2 lane highway runs along the side of the lake.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 31/01/2025
Thank you @tru86.bsky.social! That's great, it's one of our favorite places. :)
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 31/01/2025
Thanks, Mikey! 😀
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 31/01/2025
#fungifriends :)
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 31/01/2025
I had a lot of fun this fall photographing such a wonderful variety of mushrooms! This is a macro photo of a small group of mushrooms in the Hoh River Valley in Olympic National Park. #mushrooms #fungiphotography #olympicnationalpark #art #photography
A macro photo of a cluster of light brown mushrooms with a shallow depth of field, focused on the delicate edge of one of the mushroom caps.
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 31/01/2025
More legacy forests auctioned off by @wadnr.bsky.social to be clear-cut and converted to tree farms, including 'Dungeness & Dragons', a beautiful, mature forest on a steep hillside above the Dungeness River in Sequim, WA: www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/01/2025
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 12/01/2025
Sunset over Lake Crescent and Pyramid Peak, Olympic National Park, last night: #olympicnationalpark #art #naturephotography #PNW #sunset #olympicpeninsula #washington
A large large lake, surrounded by forested mountains in shadow, with a red and pink sky. The lake water is reflecting purple from the sunset.
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 09/01/2025
This amazing legacy forest on public land is being actively logged in Joyce, WA right now. We need to connect the dots between the destruction of our biosphere, our CO2 emissions and the extreme weather events we're witnessing. elwhalegacyforests.org/ode-to-joyce/ #forests #logging #climate
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 09/01/2025
Number 4 of my 10 favorites for 2024 is of the beautiful fall colors at Royal Lake in the Royal Basin, Olympic National Park. adventurephotography.forest2sea.com/top-10-of-20... #naturephotography #photography #art #olympicnationalpark #PNW
Logs are visible on the bottom of a clear, alpine lake surrounded by fall colors and steep mountain peaks
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 05/01/2025
Such great work by Joshua Wright, saving this legacy forest from logging! #worthmorestanding #climatechange #legacyforests
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 05/01/2025
@cismleaves.com and I had such an amazing short hike in the old growth of the Olympic National Forest on New Years day!
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 04/01/2025
Number 3 in my top 10 of 2024 is the iconic amanita muscaria mushroom. It was a banner year for fungus on the Olympic Peninsula, with unusual August rains leading to an explosion of mushrooms in September and October! adventurephotography.forest2sea.com/top-10-of-20... #PNW #fungi #mushrooms #photo
A close-up photo of an amanita muscaria mushroom with a bright red cap and white spots, with just a touch of iridescence.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 02/01/2025
Number two in my Top 10 of 2024 is the Devil's Punchbowl reflections, on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. adventurephotography.forest2sea.com/top-10-of-20... #naturephotography #photography #art #olympicnationalpark #PNW
The footbridge over the Devil's Punchbowl on Lake Crescent, with glass water reflections and blue sky.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 31/12/2024
As a retrospective, I'm sharing my top 10 favorite photos that I took in 2024, in chronological order. My first one from spring, is a tropical looking waterfall in the Hoh rainforest. #naturephotography #photography #art #olympicnationalpark #PNW adventurephotography.forest2sea.com/top-10-of-20...
A small waterfall in a lush, green, temperate rainforest, surrounded by moss covered logs and rocks, and sword ferns.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 21/12/2024
There is beauty in frost and darkness, just as there is loveliness in light and warmth. Embrace it all this Winter Solstice! #WinterSolstice #forests #photography #nature #PNW
A forest on the Olympic Peninsula of WA state shrouded in fog and mist.
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 19/12/2024
Moody fall forest vibes. This is WA state forest in the Elwha River watershed that was planned for logging, but has been saved. Photo by @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com #forestphotography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #ElwhaRiverWatershed
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 18/12/2024
Had a great hike with @cismleaves.bsky.social on one of the less popular Olympic National Park trails this weekend. One of the wonderful things about this time of year, is that when the sun is out, it's always golden hour! #OlympicNationalPark #naturephotography #PNW #fall
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 17/12/2024
Pretty cool overview of the amazing company I work for:
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 17/12/2024
The Elwha "Tree Well" legacy forest is ALSO going up for auction tomorrow! It's also been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00960-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're so grateful to both orgs for trying to stop this! elwhalegacyforests.org/tree-well/
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Tree Well - Elwha Legacy Forests
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 17/12/2024
The Elwha "Parched" legacy forest is going up for auction tomorrow! However, the sale has been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00961-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're hoping the courts will grant an injunction! elwhalegacyforests.org/parched/
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Parched - Elwha Legacy Forests
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 13/12/2024
This is what we lost: elwhalegacyforests.org/on-the-line/
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On the Line - Elwha Legacy Forests
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Elwha Legacy Forests @elwhalegacyforests.org · 13/12/2024
On Friday, November 29th, 2024, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Elder Yayacen (Linda Weichman) and Lummi Elder Sul ka dub (Freddie Lane) joined the Elwha Legacy Forests coalition at the planned clear-cut site of the ‘Doc Holliday‘ forest, located near Sadie Creek. elwhalegacyforests.org/doc-holliday...
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Doc Holliday / Sadie Creek Tribal Elder Visit - Elwha Legacy Forests
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 05/12/2024
There was a spectacular fall sunrise this morning over Lake Sutherland and Lake Crescent, WA! #photography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #drone #nature
Beautiful red sunrise over a cloud-shrouded valley, surrounded by mountains with a dusting of snow.Beautiful red sunrise over a cloud-shrouded valley, surrounded by mountains.Beautiful red sunrise over a cloud-shrouded valley, surrounded by mountains with a dusting of snow.
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Scott McGee @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com · 27/11/2024
We finally visited this magical place in the fall - the Hoh rainforest in Olympic National Park. It's the reason we moved to the Olympic Peninsula, after visiting for the first time a decade ago. #photography #nature #pnw #olympicnationalpark
Temperate rainforest in the fall, with vine maple, lush ferns and trees covered in moss.
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