Explore a privately conserved mountain forest and meadow property near Mount Ashland. We’ll joyfully catch and release butterflies and bumble bees, and identify wildflowers with Lepidopterist, Linda Kappen, and Botanist and Stewardship Director, Kristi Mergenthaler. The data collected during this outing will be entered in the Bumble Bee Atlas Database.
Most hikes are free. Registration opens online and one month in advance before the date of each hike. For more information or for help with registration, please visit www.landconserve.org/hikes-and-tours, call 541-482-3069, or email events@landconserve.org.
If you ever peer into a half-rotted log you might be so lucky to find a slippery pair of eyes staring back at you. If you’re extremely lucky those eyes could belong to a Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Usually seen wriggling through woody debris or eating a mildly toxic banana slug, these marbled beauties are found throughout western Oregon.