wmpe2000: Ribes bracteosum - Stink currents in moist forest
wmpe2000: picking red huckleberries (Vaccinium parvifolium) from a shrub where most of the berries were raked and eaten by a grizzly bear
wmpe2000: bridge over Saw Mill Creek
wmpe2000: Devil's matchstick lichen - Pilophorus acicularis
wmpe2000: chunky banana slug - colors vary depending their food on the forest floor
wmpe2000: Cornus canadensis - Bunchberry
wmpe2000: Membranous pelt lichen - Peltigera membranacea - the diverse lichen species in the temperate rain forest are fascinating
wmpe2000: boreal rainforest tapers near edge of muskeg (acidic bog)
wmpe2000: after the switchbacks a lovely to walk upon gravel treadway
wmpe2000: boreal rainforest
wmpe2000: quicksand in the muskeg
wmpe2000: grey trail thread leading through the muskeg with stand of Thuja plicata on the right
wmpe2000: Lysichiton americanum next to mountain stream
wmpe2000: surface tension, adhesion and cohesion work together creating water drops on the Lysichiton americanum (Western skunk cabbage)
wmpe2000: Lysichiton americanum - Western skunk cabbage fruited spadix
wmpe2000: Alnus viridis - Sitka alder with fruit cones
wmpe2000: Pacific banana slug in hand
wmpe2000: Sitka alder
wmpe2000: Nuphar polysepala
wmpe2000: old growth forest surrounding Beaver Lake with avalanche tree fall
wmpe2000: coniferous woodland
wmpe2000: Vaccinium cespitosum - dwarf blueberry
wmpe2000: Beaver Lake view, Tongass National Forest
wmpe2000: Veratrum viride
wmpe2000: Veratrum viride - False green hellebore
wmpe2000: a brown bear passed by this tree and left its mark
wmpe2000: temperate rainforest teeming with species lipstick cladonia, mosses, liverworts and lichens