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…
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…
As I mentioned in ‘Pivoting’, I hadn’t been in a redwood forest since I was a kid, and at that…
Now we turn our attention to Abies lasiocarpa (subalpine fir, which used to be called alpine fir, until someone pointed out that…
If you can see its cones, and they haven’t disintegrated yet, Abies procera is the easiest fir to identify, because…
Now we’re on to Abies amabilis, the other true fir in our region that has stomatal bloom only on the underside of…