holy effing s
Snort!
I volunteer to be one of the celebrity sponsors.
“New species”? Naw. Folks 'round here have known about the tree octopus for a long time. You ain’t truly experienced hiking in the Pacific Northwest 'til you’ve been tapped on the shoulder by a tentacle. 
aye, more feared than the bears, they are!!
With good reason. One o’ them eight-armed beasties bit a hole in my Tilley hat. (That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ with it.)
In support of preservation efforts for this magnificent creature, I joined the People for the Ethical Treatment of Pumpkins.
The Pacific Northwest is also home to the [u]mountain beaver[/u], aka the “boomer”. It doesn’t boom, it doesn’t live in the mountains, and it isn’t a beaver.
Nope, that was Cthulhu. 
–James
Did you read the faq? Their suggestion for donations is…thought provoking. 
It’s the flying geoducks that really scare me. They land on your head and try to squirt you to death. Or maybe that’s just regular ducks …
A cache of Geoducks can be very intimidating, especially if they are of the lamprey/geoduck hybrid. Here is a poor hapless fellow being sucked down by one of these creatures
First I had to worry about attack squirrels, now this.
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is real and not a hoax like Belgium, right?
Actually, copper is more likely to be toxic to octopodes than nickel.
djm
Nickel caused the extinction of the Octopus scansorius arborealis in the Sudbury, Canada area. They just smelted out of existence.
<cringe> 
djm
Oy. 
Tree octopus? 
, , and again!!!
Here in Australia there are drop bears…http://geocities.com/muirnin/db.htm
Be afraid…be very afra…aaaaaaggggghh!!!