See the Salamanders in the UW Daily photo gallery of the walk I led for their...
Link to the photo gallery done for the UW daily on the “Salamander Love Night” program I gave for Adam Leache’s Biology 180 class: http://dailyuw.com/photos/galleries/2012/feb/16/breaking-down-biology/...
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The Ravens are back at Lincoln Park in West Seattle for maybe the fifth year!
While they have always been common in the mountains, and beyond the urban and suburbanized areas, prior to maybe 2004, when one or two Ravens started showing up in Seward Park, in my decades of...
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A Dramatic Start to Spring in Lincoln Park!
With the first striking group of Trilliums up by March 9th, some birds now nesting, and early migrants now arriving, and butterflies and other bugs are now winging. Spring is now in full swing! You can...
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Let Stewart share his quite possibly unsurpassed knowledge of the whole western Washington lowland community of plants, animals and fungi, and infect you and your group with his incredible passion for...
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Artificial Insemination of our Phantom Orchids Attempted
The following is part of a continued saga of a planned and attempted artificial insemination of the Cephananthera austiniae – Phantom Orchids in and around Lincoln Park, West Seattle, here goes the...
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See my new article: Return of the Phantom Orchid on the Friends of Lincoln Park blog.
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“Learn the Mosses our Wildflowers Thrive in” Program Adds New Stewardship...
For all of the years I have been doing “Stewardship Adventures”, I had never made any of my “adventures” as much about “stewardship” as I really wanted, but now with my “Learn the Mosses our...
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A New Season of Phantom Orchid Pollination by Toothpicks
Lincoln Park has a population of unique plants, they are orchids, not often found around here, and not often found anywhere else for that matter. It is the Phantom Orchid – Cephalanthera austiniae...
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Continuing my guerrilla seeding of our lost Collomia grandiflora here in Seattle
Photo © 2004 Ben Legler About nineteen years ago, when I found Arthur Lee Jacobson’s checklist with all of the species, native or alien, that had ever been found growing wild in the greater Seattle...
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Nancy Sinatra’s Gift to the Remaining Natural Wealth and Natural Beauty of...
You know what my greatest pet peeve is? It’s the dogs tearing up the beautiful, green moss carpets in our remaining natural areas, and digging up the wildflowers that grow best in their spongy, water...
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