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…
As I mentioned in ‘Pivoting’, I hadn’t been in a redwood forest since I was a kid, and at that…
Next up on our tour of our native conifers is Juniperus communis (with the common names common juniper, dwarf juniper, and mountain…