Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course - Carkeek Park

We'll meet at 11:00 AM at the Visitor Center (Nancy Malmgren Environmental Learning Center) near the entrance to the Park.  If the weather is nice, those who want to linger afterwards can join the leaders for a late lunch at picnic tables near the parking lot.

This field trip will last two to three hours and will give you the chance to practice using all your senses, and tools, to appreciate and to identify flowers, trees,  and ferns as well as other plants and animals. 

We hope to  concentrate on only 30 to 40 common species in our particular place, and understand more about their role in these lowland forests. 

Trees: Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Red Cedar, Lodgepole Pine, Grand Fir, Yew, Red Alder, Big-leaf Maple, Vine Maple, Black cottonwood, Madrone

Shrubs: Tall Oregon Grape, Hazelnut, Red Elderberry, Common Snowberry, Red-osier dogwood, Salah, Rhododendron, Evergreen huckleberry, red huckleberry, Scot's broom, Indian plum, Pacific ninebark, Bitter cherry, Thimbleberry, Salmonberry, Wild Blackberry

Ferns: Lady Fern, Deer Fern, Spreading Wood-fern, Licorice Fern, Sword Fern, Bracken Fern

Flowers: Bleeding heart, Stinky Bob, red-flowered currant, Pacific Waterleaf, Hyacinth, False Solomon's seal, White trillium, Enchanter's nightshade, Oregon Wood-sorrel, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, Creeping Buttercup, Large-leaved avens, Cleavers

Maybe some birds as well!