Natural History Wanderings

Pacific Northwest Wildflower Bloom Reports has three detailed flowers  and fauna species reports for Central and Eastern Washington t

• June 15, 2015: Mother Lode Mine Trail #808A & Lookout Mt. Trail #804 (Ochoco National Forest)
• June 14, 2015: Road 3800-200 to Saddle East of Spanish Peak (Ochoco National Forest)
• June 13, 2015: Roads 2630 & 2230 from Pisgah Meadows to Mount Pisgah Lookout (Ochoco National Forest)

Oregon Wildflowers has a report for Sucker Creek Trail in the Red Buttes Wilderness

• Elevations of this wilderness hike in Josephine County range from 3,900 feet at the trailhead to 5,180 feet at the cirque lake. The gift here is delivered in stands of beargrass on the trail approaching the cirque lake and then at and around the lake. Among many other wildflower varieties, most at the upper elevations, are aster, columbine, lupine, paintbrush, thimbleberry, wild rose, and yellow blooms on the lake’s lily pads