Shoup Bay Trail

Shoup Bay Trail

May 26th 2011

Sunny, light wind and very hot out.

First Trail Plants

Ostrich Fern---Matteuccia struthiopteris

Devils Club---Oplopanax horridus

Oak Fern---Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Cottonwood---Populus deltoides

Watermelon Berry---Streptopus amplexifolius

Nettles---Urtica Species

Cow Parsnip---Heracleum maximum

Fireweed---Chamerion angustifolium

Alaskan Violets---Viola langsdorfii

False Indian Corn---Veratrum viride

Stream Violets---Viola glabella

Scoulers Willows---Salix scouleriana

The Beach-Plants

Purple Iris---Iris germanica

Shooting Star---Hydrangea macrophylla

Meadow Barley---Hordeum brachyantherum

Yarrow---Achillea millefolium

Arctic Rush---Arcticus

Rockweed---Pelvetia fastigiata

Creatures

Water Strider---Gerridae

Bumble Bee---Bombus

Raven---Corvus corax

Mew Gull---Larus canus

American Robin---Turdus migratorius

Blue Mussels---Mytilus edulis

Barnacles---Cirripedia

Spider Mite---Tetranynchus urticae Koch

Red Crab (Dead)---Gecarcoidea natalis

Moth SP.

Second Trail Plants

Salmon Berry---Rubus spectabilis

Star Flower---Trientalis borealis

Miners Lettuce---Claytonia perfoliata

Peat Moss---Sphagnum

Nagoon Berry---Rubus arcticus

Chocolate Lily---Fritillaria Camschatcencis

Skunk Cabbage---Lysichition americanus

Creatures

Mosquitos SP.

Beach Access Trail-Open field with most of the plants we have identified already growing from the moss or peat growing along the trail sides. The plants are scattered amongst one another.

Today was another adventure to another place I haven't been, it was a nice hike and a very beautiful day. I had never actually seen mud like that and it was kind of scary to think that if you started sinking you didn't know where it would stop. It is defiantly a place I am going to go again when I have the time.