Day 1 McCarthy Trip

September 5th, 2014 3:02 pm

Weather-Approx. around the 50's, very low clouds, rain

Geological features: Wrangell Mountains

Fireweed

Epilobium angustifolium 

      The fireweed is around 5-20 cm long, with short hairy leaves on the upper part in the color of green. There is purple flower attached and around 2-4 cm long. The living environment is usually in moist areas. You can find them along the roadside, in meadows, and even on avalanche tracks. The haida is used in order to make the cord of the fireweed. 

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Day 2 McCarthy Trip

September 6th, 2014 4:05pm

Weather: Wet, low clouds, dried up at the end of the day

Kennicot Mines

Geological features: glacier tills

Frog Pelt

Peltigera neopolydactyla

     It is a green, leafy type of lichen and around 10-25 mm wide. It can also be blue mixed with grey at times with a hairy upper surface. It is on raised lobes and is cottony with blackish veins. Its can be found on rocks, soil, and on logs. It has almost like a burnt look to it on the top of the leaf, because of the dryness. 

http://walts.org/lichens/frog-pelt/images/frog%20pelt-2.jpg

Observing the glacier: 

- different levels of marine, glacier till covering most of the glacier

- can see the pretty blue on some of glacier

-sunny outside with a little drizzle

- lots of ricks surrounding

- has a very calm feeling to it

- glicer on the right, whitish blue, big rocks surrounding 

Day 3 McCarthy Trip

September 7th, 2014 10:07 am

Wather: Sunny, wet ground, cold 

Wood hiking trial

Geological Features: muskeg

very mushy and wet

Paper Birch

Betula Papyrifera 

Paper birch is very thin looking strips of the tree that falls off easily. The easy to peel of birch is waterproof and was useful to native people back then. It is white to copper brown looking and has brown horizontal lines running up and down the tree. It has oval leaves on it and can get up to 10 cm long. Catkins is one type of flower that can be found on the paper birch tree. You can find paper birch trees in moist, dense woods and sometimes around bogs and more wetland.

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Plants, Animals, and Fungi	Scientific Name
Day 1
Fireweed	Epilobium angustifolium
Birch	Betula
Bear Berry	Kinnikinnick
Poplar	Populus
Lichens	Flavoparmelia caperata
Shaggy Mane	Coprinus comatus
Dryas	Dryas Octopetala
Animals	Animalia
Raven	Corvus corax
White Spruce	Picea glauca
Young/ Old Poplar	Populus
Liverwort	Marchantia acaulis
Bear Berries	Kinnikinnick
Cotton Grass	Eriophorum
Day 2
Moose	Alces alces
Feathered Moss	Hylocomium splendens
Pelts (Freckled)	Peltigera aphthosa
Frog Pelt	Peltigera neopolydactyla
Artic Lupine	Lupinus arcticus
Red Alder	Alnus rubra
White Spruce Tree	Picea glauca
Wild rose	Rosa acicularis
Bear Berries	Kinnikinnick
Blueberries	Cyanococcus
Crow Berries	Empetrum nigrum
Green Wintergreen Pyrola	Pyrola chlorantha
3 Toothed Sassafras	Doryphora sassafras
Day 3
Muskeg
Freckled Pelt	Peltigera aphthosa
Dwarf Dogwood	Cornus canadensis
Bear Berries	Kinnikinnick
Puff Balls	Lycoperdon perlatum
Cranberry	Vaccinium oxycoccos
Club Moss	Lycopodium
Wintergreen	Gaultheria procumbens
Paper Birch	Betula papyrifera
Squirrel (Red)	Sciurus vulgaris
Poplar Tree	Populus
Slime Mold	Dictyostelium discoideum

Reference Guide. (1994). In J. Pojar (Ed.), Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast (p. 528). Canada: Lone Pine Publisher.

McCarthy Field Trip, Day 3

September 7, 2014 9:10 am Little woody hiking trail

weather: light clouds, little-no wind

geo: post-bog, muske

non-vegetative life: red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris, gray jay Perisoreus canadensis, chickadee sp., moose evidence, beetle and woodpecker evidence

plants & fungi:

freckled pelt lichen Peltigera brittannica

alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina

black spruce Picea mariana

white spruce Picea glauca

northern red currant Ribes triste

feather moss Kindbergia oregana

puffball Lycoperdon perlatum

spiny puffball Lycoperdon echinatum

labrador tea Ledum palustris ssp groenlandicum

common horsetail Equisetum arvense

high-bush cranberry Viburnum edule

frog pelt lichen Peltigera neopolydactyla

prickly rose Rosa acicularis

lycopodium sp.

common fireweed Epilobium angustifolium

green wintergreen Pyrola chlorantha

paper birch Betula papyrifera

balsam poplar Populus balsamifera

cow's parsnip Anthriscus sylvestris

slime mold sp.

grass sp.

red alder Alnus rubra

raspberry Rubus idaeus

willow Salix sp.

green mushroom

Works Cited:

Google. (n.d.). Google. Retrieved September 9, 2014, from http://www.google.com/

Pojar, J., MacKinnon, A., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Redmond, Wash.: Lone Pine Pub..

Pratt, V. E. (1989). Field guide to Alaskan wildflowers. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskakrafts Pub.. 

McCarthy Field Trip, Day 2

September 6, 2014 2:03 pm Kennecot Mines

weather: light rain till 2:30, then partly cloudy, winds 7 mph

geo: gravel, mountain, mill sight, lateral moraine

non-vegetative life: moose Alces alces, gnats

plants & fungi:

cow parsnip Heracleum lanatum

northern yarrow Achillea borealis

dandelion Taraxacum officinale

river beauty/dwarf fireweed Epilobium latifolium

white spruce Picea glauca

balsam poplar Populus balsamifera

willow Salix sp.

common horsetail Equisetum arvense

feather moss Kindbergia oregana

freckled pelt lichen Peltigera brittannica

frog pelt lichen Peltigera neopolydactyla

pixie cup lichen Claudonia chlorophaea

arctic lupine Lupinus arcticus

red alder Alnus rubra

beautiful jacobs ladder

prickly rose Rosa acicularis

alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina

bog blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum

crowberry/mossberry Empetrum nigrum

spiny puffball Lycoperdon echinatum

pink wintergreen Pyrola asarifolia

green wintergreen Pyrola chlorantha

prickly saxifrage Saxifraga bronchialis

waterworm lichen Siphula ceratites

dog pelt lichen Peltigera canina

yellow sulfur lichen

northern red currant Ribes triste

soapberry Shepherdia canadensis

artemisia sp.

subalpine fir Abies lasiocarpa

broomrape/groundcone Boschniakia rossica

scouring-rush Equisetum hyemale

puffball Lycoperdon perlatum

juniper bush Juniperus communis

common fireweed Epilobium angustifolium

Works Cited:

Google. (n.d.). Google. Retrieved September 9, 2014, from http://www.google.com/

Pojar, J., MacKinnon, A., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Redmond, Wash.: Lone Pine Pub..

Pratt, V. E. (1989). Field guide to Alaskan wildflowers. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskakrafts Pub.. 

McCarthy Field Trip, Day 1

September 5, 2014 4:06 pm McCarthy

weather: rain, light fog, wind less than 10 mph

geo: packed silt/gravel, conglomerates, erratics

non-vegetative life: raven Corvus corax, mosquito (larvae) sp., vole evidence, moose evidence (poop, tracks), red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris, evidence of cliff swallows found in glacial till (nests, feathers)

plants & fungi:

northern yarrow Achillea borealis

western dwarf mistletoe Arceuthobium campylopodum

shaggy mane Coprinus comatus

prickly rose Rosa acicularis

indian paintbrush/yellow paintbrush Castilleja unalaschenis

dandelion Taraxacum officinale

yellow dryas Dryas drummondii

soapberry Shepherdia canadensis

common horsetail Equisetum arvense

scouring-rush Equisetum hyemale

white spruce Picea glauca

balsam poplar Populus balsamifera

feather moss Kindbergia oregana

kinnikinnick Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

river beauty/dwarf fireweed Epilobium latifolium

liverwort sp.

alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina

cotton grass sp.

raspberry Rubus idaeus

Works Cited:

Google. (n.d.). Google. Retrieved September 9, 2014, from http://www.google.com/

Pojar, J., MacKinnon, A., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Redmond, Wash.: Lone Pine Pub..

Pratt, V. E. (1989). Field guide to Alaskan wildflowers. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskakrafts Pub.. 

Soapberry

Soapberry

Sapindus- Commonly known as Soapberry for its 37 percent saponin contained in the poisonus fruit which can be used for soap when mixed with water in some regions. Blooming time is mid spring and early summer where it turns a white/near white, cream color. This plant needs full sun exporsure to grown

The

Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Soapberry (plant)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2014.

"PlantFiles: Western Soapberry." Dave's Garden. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2014.