Rangers on the back balcony of Hurricane Ridge built in the 1950s. Preservation and Becoming a National Park: In 1897 the area received its first national designation, as Olympic Forest Reserve, by President Grover Cleveland in response to concern about the area's disappearing forests. Eight years later, in 1909, President Teddy Roosevelt designated a part of the reserve as Mount Olympus National Monument to protect the habitat of Roosevelt Elk, whose population was in steep decline.
President Grover Cleveland
President Grover Cleveland