Field Trip 1 - Seattle Naturalists Intro Natural World Course - Wolf Creek Nature Trail

Place: Discovery Park North Parking lot on Texas Way. On Google maps  MH7Q+X3 Seattle, Washington 

There is a restroom a few minutes walk from the West end of the parking lot.

Time: 9am, Saturday morning, April 15

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. You'll learn to use your charts, tree & flower apps, and field guides. We'll talk about the history of the area and how  its environmental niches  influence just what grows and lives there.

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 others

Maybe some birds as well!