Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course - Sequalitchew Canyon & Dupont Bluff

Meeting place is the Sequalitchew Creek Trailhead parking area by the City Hall and Police Station in DuPont, WA. Meet at 9 am, Sunday, April 21.

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, Giant Chain 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