I love the texture that the branched horsetails give to the areas that they inhabit, but I’ve been reluctant to…
Until last September Thuja plicata (western red-cedar) was the only conifer I could consistently identify, but that was only one of the…
When I first conceived of the trip to sw Oregon/nw California that I wrote about in ‘Pivoting’, I had hoped…
I am finally ready to start profiling the so called cedars of our region. The first thing I have to…
I found my first specimens of these conifers on a trip to Mt. Hood last October, but it took a…
Thanks to a tip from Caroline Skinner, a regular reader of these profiles, I was able to find my first…
The 16th installment in my attempt to profile the conifers of the PNW highlights Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce). This primarily coastal denizen,…
I’m going to take a short break from talking about the organisms I found on my trip to sw Oregon/nw…
I made a mistake on my recent trip to the coast by assuming that all of the Polypodium to be found where…
As I mentioned in ‘Pivoting’, I hadn’t been in a redwood forest since I was a kid, and at that…