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Field Trip to the Klanawa Ecological Reserve
On Saturday, June 10, 4 members of the Board of Friends of Ecological reserves and a guest went out to this reserve to inspect it and to check on its integrity. We were surprized by the pristine nature of the reserve and were able to easily find the rare redwood sorrel, which is not in bloom yet. Oxalis oregana which is very common there in the understory of a Sitka Spruce forest.
- Strange Thimbleberry near roadway
- Possibly mutant thimbleberry. large size and extra petals
- Salal
- Goatsbeard by roadway
- False lily of the valley
- Ranunculus with insects
- Redwood Sorel
- Old cerdar stump.. evidence of selective logging in the past
- Birds-nest fungi
- Fungi on a stump
- Liz at a bear den
- Redwood Sorel
- Rick with the redwood sorel
- An impresive linear community of redwood sorel on a fallen Sitka Spruce log
- Sitka Spruce stands.
- Redwood Sorel
- A wildlife tree.. dead Sitka Spruce
- WIldlife treee providing habitat for other species.
- Sampling the pure water!
- The geology of the river rock was also interesting.
- Board members Garry, Rick, Stephen and Liz on the river floodplane
- river floodplane vegetation
- Floodplane
- Epiphytes on Sitka spruce
- An interesting species in association with the Oxalis
- Coltsfoot??
- Sunlit patch of Oxalis
- Redwood sorel in a sunlit spot: leaves collapsed for water retention
- Western Red Cedar
- Deadfall
- Klanawa River ER section from the bridge.
Photos by Garry Fletcher