When did the Northern Spotted Owl become Washingtons official state bird?
In 1996, when a spotted owl on the Olympic Peninsula devoured the state’s last known wild Goldfinch. Q: Does the dining area of the Space Needle really rotate? A: Actually, no, although Mr. Our Northwest says we can be forgiven for telling tourists it does. The fact is, the entire planet rotates, and scientists who helped design the Space Needle realized the only way to give patrons a glimpse of the Cascades, Olympics, Queen Anne and Harbor Island would be to keep the restaurant stationery. Complicated geophysical tracking using the sun, Venus and Heaven as reference points assures that the restaurant floor, riding on a thin cushion of air, stays put while the rest of the region rotates around it. At this latitude, a full rotation takes almost exactly 60 minutes. Just be glad the Needle wasn’t built in Nome. Diners there would have to chew on their caribou steaks for more than 3 hours to get back where they started. Q: How many alligators live in Green Lake? A: Skeptics will say zero,
