Botany Outing Report: Kitty Coleman Park, Feb. 17, 2015

11 members enjoyed a calm and sunny walk at Kitty Coleman Provincial Park from 10:30 to 12 noon. First, we examined the “Green Shores Treatment” of horizontally placing older rooted trees, anchored by cables to deeply buried rock or concrete, to protect the foreshore from erosion due to ocean storms. Then we walked the approximately 1/2 mile to the site of the over-500 year old Douglas fir , which, when we measured the circumference (at about chest height), is 28 feet. One participant pointed out that there is a huge eagle nest near the top of that tree, and it is clearly visible from a point near the beach.
California sea lions were in abundance close to shore, and we saw eagles and mallard ducks. Leaves of miner’s lettuce and slender toothwort were showing.

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