This is the only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, at twenty-eight thousand acres it 's regarded as small compared to others but what it lacks in size it makes up by the vast amount of species that call the forest home. One interesting fact about the forest is that they receive over two hundred inches of rain per year. Another is that out of the three hundred and ninety fern and tree species 88 receive protection because they are endemic or rare and 23 are found exclusively in this forest. I emerged from the visitor center with knowledge flooding out of my head like a raging river. I began to hear the many calls of birds and the famous Coqui frog. As I hiked deeper into the forest I began to see the vibrant colors of the plant life spread across my range of view, it was like I walked inside of a kaleidoscope. When I reached the top of the forest I looked out and saw the La coca falls cascading over an 85 foot drop. It crashed down like a weightless body in free fall against the jagged rock
This is the only tropical rainforest in the US national forest system, at twenty-eight thousand acres it 's regarded as small compared to others but what it lacks in size it makes up by the vast amount of species that call the forest home. One interesting fact about the forest is that they receive over two hundred inches of rain per year. Another is that out of the three hundred and ninety fern and tree species 88 receive protection because they are endemic or rare and 23 are found exclusively in this forest. I emerged from the visitor center with knowledge flooding out of my head like a raging river. I began to hear the many calls of birds and the famous Coqui frog. As I hiked deeper into the forest I began to see the vibrant colors of the plant life spread across my range of view, it was like I walked inside of a kaleidoscope. When I reached the top of the forest I looked out and saw the La coca falls cascading over an 85 foot drop. It crashed down like a weightless body in free fall against the jagged rock