I didn’t think we had ticks on this side of the state. Good to know. The WA Dept of Health is asking people to send in ticks they find so they can track what types live where. Here’s a link to a Seattle PI story about it from March 2013.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/boomerconsumer/2013/03/28/state-warns-about-ticks-and-asks-you-to-send-in-samples/