Natural History Wanderings

Pacific Northwest Wildflowers has the following updates

March 5, 2015: Columbia Hills Natural Area Preserve (click on date for detailed report)

March 3, 2015: Catherine Creek (below the elevation level of the Arch).(click on date for detailed report)

March 3, 2015: Columbia Hills State Park from the Crawford Oaks Trailhead. We’re seeing western fence lizards, so it should soon be warm enough for rattlesnakes to be out and about at many Gorge locations, so be careful!(click on date for detailed report)

March 3, 2015: The first glacier lilies (Erythronium grandiflorum) were observed in bloom with oak toothworts (Cardamine nuttallii var. nuttallii) under the oaks in the burned area of the Rowena loops (along old Highway 30). Some chocolate lilies (Fritillaria affinis) were observed in the same location with well-sized flower buds.