Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course - Scatter Creek Wildlife Area

Meeting Time and Place will be sent to registered participants two to three days prior to the trip. This field trip will be in two locations south of Olympia: Scatter Creek (the south parcel) and McLane Creek for a comparison of two habitats. Driving directions will be sent with trip details.

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