Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course

Field trip: Introduction to the Natural World Course

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

This field trip will give you the chance to practice using your charts, tree & flower apps, and field guide to identify trees, ferns and flowers as well as other plants and animals of the Lowland Forest Life Zone. This trip will be in a local park and will last three to four hours.

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This field trip 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. You'll learn to use your charts, tree & flower apps, and field guides. 

We hope to  concentrate on common species 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,  False Solomon's seal, White trillium, evergreen huckleberry, Oregon Wood-sorrel, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, Creeping Buttercup, Large-leaved avens, Cleavers



This is the morning session. We'll meet at 8am. Location is still to be determined and will be communicated by email the week before the field trip. Restrooms are available near the playground.

We will divide up into smaller groups in the parking lot and explore several different trails in the area.

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Bring your smartphone or tablet with Washington Wildflower Search, PNW Trees apps. Bring the charts for trees, ferns, and flower families. Bring a guide book if you want.

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