Natural History Wanderings

From Los Padres ForestWatch

Join ForestWatch’s Director of Conservation & Research (and resident plant nerd), Bryant Baker, to learn about many of the common native tree species found in the Los Padres National Forest and how to identify them. Watch a recording of the webinar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysu1zbbmq-4

See below for timestamp links to key moments in the webinar. Be sure to check out the awesome books about trees and other plants in our online store: https://store.forestwatch.org

And if you want to see more educational presentations like this or just want to lend your support to ForestWatch’s conservation work, please consider donating at: https://lpfw.org/donate

Key Moments in the Presentation: 0:00:00 Trees of the Los Padres Intro 0:02:55 Conifers 0:05:59 Pines Overview 0:09:24 Coulter Pine 0:13:28 Gray Pine 0:17:33 Jeffrey (& Ponderosa) Pine 0:22:14 Sugar Pine 0:26:22 Singleleaf Pinyon Pine 0:30:21 White Fir 0:36:54 Bigcone Douglas-fir 0:43:32 Hardwoods 0:44:03 Coast Live Oak 0:47:42 Blue Oak (& Valley Oak) 0:51:04 Canyon Live Oak 0:53:17 Black Oak 0:55:41 Pacific Madrone 0:58:17 California Bay Laurel 1:01:13 Western Sycamore 1:02:44 Cottonwoods 1:04:40 White Alder 1:05:59 Big Leaf Maple