As most everyone of you know, last week was the CLM workshop.  It was great being able to meet all of you and pick up some valuable information to assist me in doing the best I can do at my job.  I have returned to Southern Oregon excited to be back in the mountains, and with enthusiasm for collections.  In my two days back, I already made 4 SOS collections and vouchered 5 new plant specimens.  It was great to learn all about the proper protocols for the collecting process and now be back in the field, feeling confident that the collections I am making are solid. I am about to head out to an area called French Flat which is deep in the Siskiyou mountains where everything that grows there is a little peculiar due to the serpentine soils.  I haven’t checked on this site for  a little over two weeks now so there should be quite a few rarer species to collect.

I couldn’t figure out how to caption these photos below (even though I know I have done it before), but the first one is a very large puff ball fungi, the second is the start of my Allium siskiyouense (the Siskiyou Onion) collection, and the third is a view from an over grown logging road facing Mt. McLaughlin on the west side of the lower Cascade Mountains.  I just wanted to ad this last photo to show my joy for being back in mountain county after spending a week in the painfully flat mid west.

Until next time, happy collecting!