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A HabitatAccomplishments: Winter 2006
Lonnie: Ammending the Soil: This is in the Beargrass Savanna site, but we ammended both sites. The South Puget Sound Glacial Outwash Prairie Ecosystem(Note: this essay was printed in the Cooper Point Journal, Thursday March 8, 2007) The South Puget Sound Glacial Outwash Prairie Ecosystem Think about a flat forested area or farm field around here, and allow your vision to lapse into time machine mode to meld back to 13,000 years ago, during the last ice age. This entire area was covered by glaciers. Olympia was the borderline of the glacier’s reach in the Pac NW. The ice scoured the land and captured sand and gravel, rocks and boulders within the ice. When the ice melted, sand and gravel “outwashed”, making our area unique geologically. Prairie Plants that have been added to the Camas Prairies LHG site in Winter of 2006
REFERENCESPojar, Jim, and Andy MacKinnon. Revised Plants of The Pacific Northwest Coast. Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Lone Pine Publishing, 1994. Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of The Pacific West. Sante Fe, NM: Red Crane Books, Inc., 1993. Moore, Michael. Medicinal Plants of The Mountain West. Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003. Lincoff, Gary, and Alfred A. Knopf. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. New York: Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1995. Orr, Robert T., and Nancy B. Orr. Mushrooms of Western North America. London, England: University of California Press, Ltd., and Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1979. INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE FUNGI
Chicken of the Woods
LATIN NAME: Polyporus sulphureus FAMILY: Polyporaceae ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALSACCOMPLISHMENTS:
GOALS: CURRENT PLANT INTRODUCTION
Pinus contorta var. latifolia Lodgepole Pine SITE DESCRIPTIONDry Woodland Habitat at Evergreen Long House Description: Welcome to the Dry Woodlands! Where Lodgepole Pines and Chickens of the Wood live in happy harmony together. We have a 20'-25' X 27' dry woodland area that we will be nursing back to health. There are 6 Lodgepole Pines (one was completely dead and has been removed), and one Douglas Fir tree in the back. In the center of the site, there sits a dead log that had Chicken mushrooms (Chicken of the Woods) growing out of it when we first saw it. These are a type of Polypore and are of choice edibility. The entire site is covered in what appears to be Perennial Ryegrass and in the grass there are weeds and some Himalayan Blackberry vines. There is an invasive crabgrass that has not been identified.
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