Sun-baked

As expected San Juan island has been well baked by the summer sun, much of this lagoon is now a mud cake that is still quite spongy hinting of the water bellow. We found Ruppia maritima growing in what remained of the water in the lagoon alongside Spergularia salina, Plantago maritima, and Salicornia depressa. These […]

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In bloom!

We spent the last two weeks exploring the various landscapes of Hood River County. We started in the Columbia Gorge, having to skip some locations because of a major fire in 2017. Dry Creek Falls was protected by large cliffs and running water, which saved the plants from the destruction. The waterfall harbored a remarkable […]

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Part 1: Klamath County

The first two weeks have been full of unprecedented challenges, from figuring out how GPS devices function to searching for plants based only on vague locations. Yet we overcame these challenges and managed to have a lot of fun doing it too! Locating these plants proved to be of various difficulties. Some took the whole […]

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