2012 March 9
2012 March 9
47*04'40.69"N 122*58*17.71"W 158ft
Location: NE corner of F lot. Walk straight into the woods.
Weather: raining, but it's dry under the trees next to the parking lot.
Observations: Isothecium grows very green at the base of THPL. Once again, I'm noticing an obvious boundary where the understory starts. Only when there are breaks in the tree canopy are there POMU and Mahonia nervosa. The trees adjacent to the parking lot are densely packed and younger (smaller dbh). I don't think there has been a natural thinning next to the parking lot yet.
On a downed ACMA log I see Isothecium stoloniferum, Plagiomnium spp., Kindbergia spp., and Mnium spp. Next to the ACMA log, there is a rotting stump covered in K. praelonga and a few salal (Gaultheria shallon) plants. There is a dicot seedling growing out of the moss which I assume is GASH because there is another stump a few feet away with the same plants growing on it and the are both in sunny, open positions. Is there too much light for Vaccinium ovatum or V. parvifolium?
On my way back to F lot, there is a very dark green (pic is much lighter than the plant) Rhytidiadelphus spp. growin on a rotting stump next to K. praelonga. I haven't seen a Rhytidiadelphus spp. this green. I wonder if it's R. loreus.
Hypnum circinale is growing with Scapania spp. on a mid-decay-stage log of a young tree. I think it's PSME-the wood is light and it the bark looks like it hasn't had time to develop deep fissures yet.
Question: I wonder when the log was decayed enough for the Scapania to establish there and I wonder how long the H. circinale has left on the site since it generally grows on the bark of living trees, not logs.
Animals: cars, birds (crows, I think), and a spider on VAOV.
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