Showing posts with label invasive plant patrol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label invasive plant patrol. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2022

Happy Earth Day!

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Day 191: Happy Earth Day! With the possibility of showers in the forecast, I stuffed my new day-pack accordingly and set out for Pack Forest...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Inside Job

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Day 152: The last several times I've been here, I've been there: out on the Cispus Arm above Lake Scanewa, paddling my kayak and ...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Erythronium Oregonum, Giant White Fawn-Lily

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Day 202: Well, I did a double-take. "That's not an Avalanche Lily! What the hell...? Is that a Trout?" In the end, it prov...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Profiling Tussilago Farfara

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Day 196: I was expecting to find the Usual Suspects during an invasive-plant patrol of Tilton River State Park two days ago. In patrols l...
Monday, March 25, 2019

The Usual Suspects

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Day 163: My starting point isn't shown on this map, being some miles off to the left, but the coloured pins indicate locations where ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Long Walk For The View

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Day 159: Okay, there was a shorter way to reach this spot, but I prefer to park where there's some security against a car break-in. C...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Identifying Arctium Lappa

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Day 8: There are two species of Burdock in Washington state, Arctium lappa (Large Burdock) and Arctium minus (Small Burdock). These plant...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

At Buck's Crossing

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Day 7: I'm glad I didn't file a flight plan because once again, where I intended to go and where I wound up were about two trail ...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Rimrocks

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Day 6: It's been years since I hiked in this undeveloped county park. The last time I was here, I was geocaching with Kevin and as w...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Toadstool Territory

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Day 356: Easily the most recognizable mushroom in the world, featured in faerie tale books and video games, Amanita muscaria has a danger...
Friday, September 7, 2018

With A Teaspoon

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Day 329: My day had only just begun when I took this photo, and by the time it ended, I had packed the bow of the kayak so full of Lake S...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

IPC Bud Blancher Hike

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Day 289: The Invasive Plant Council took a hike on Eatonville's Bud Blancher Trail today, which is to say that Program Coordinator Li...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Busman's Holiday

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Day 281: It's been years since I hiked in to Packwood Lake, and I'd been thinking it needed a patrol for invasives, so I got my g...
Friday, April 20, 2018

The Stoopidest Trail

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Day 189: Yesterday, I did an 11-mile invasive plant patrol in Pack Forest and took the opportunity to explore a brand-new trail which was...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Fruitless Loop

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Day 158: Like a frootloop, I decided to go for a hike today even though I went to Morris dance practice last night and didn't get hom...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Quest For World Domination

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Day 154: Yesterday's foray was all about Skunk Cabbage, but it was a short-term mission and I needed some way to fill the rest of t...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

No Parking

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Day 148: You know what they say about "best laid plans." Well, I arrived at Pack Forest at 10 AM while the frost was still on t...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

Paddling Tilton Canyon

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Day 324: With yesterday being September Morn, I wanted to do something special, and although I'd determined that I wanted it to invol...