You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. Bats hang upside down under a snag's peeling bark. In the summer, snags protect frogs, salamanders, slugs and birds from drought and heat.
Snags are the most important home for many forest creatures.
While snags are rare in commercial forests, Olympic National Park protects trees through their entire life cycle from seedling, to canopy giant and from snag homes, to soil. Your habitat includes all of these places and many more. All creatures need places for shelter, food and reproduction. In our region, migratory wildlife, such as birds and salmon, depend upon Olympic for at least part of their lifecycle. To maintain the Pacific Northwest's biodiversity , it is important to protect an animal's entire habitat.