Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an unintentional ...

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Beach visitors pose with the “Tree of Life” on Kalaloch Beach in Olympic National Park before the tree sank during storms in early 2025. Mathew Nichols Photography Courtesy A tree that seems to defy ...

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures of a tree like no other. Some people call it the "Tree of Life," but it's ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...