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The Hoh Valley, Wash.
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The Hoh Valley, Wash.

Quiet, please! Deep in the rainforests of Olympic National Park, the largest roadless area in the contiguous United States, the Hoh is home of the “One Square Inch Project,” a fight to preserve just a single inch of landscape from human sound. Keep that one inch quiet, says founder Gordon Hempton, and the silence will radiate out for thousands of acres. And he’s right: the Inch offers few sounds louder than water dripping from leaves and the occasional clack of a grouse.

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