by Joy Stewart | Feb 9, 2018 | Local environmentalism, Native animals
SHADOW and the Woodland Park Zoo are excited to invite you to participate in the 2018 Amphibian Monitoring season! Amphibian Monitoring participants will join teams to monitor two ponds at SHADOW. Teams will upload findings of amphibian egg masses, juveniles and...
by Joy Stewart | Feb 9, 2018 | Native animals
The Long-toed Salamander or Ambystoma macrodactylum, is one of the most ecologically versatile amphibians in the Pacific Northwest. It occurs in wetlands, like ours, as well as temperate conifer forests, plains, and meadows. Long-toed salamanders are one of the...
by Joy Stewart | Jan 19, 2018 | Native animals
Did you know there are living fossils at SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve? For more than 40,000 years Mountain Beavers, Aplodontia rufa, have lived in the Pacific Northwest and have outlived any related species. Mountain Beavers are certainly misnamed as they do not live...
by Joy Stewart | Dec 8, 2017 | Native animals
By: Guest Writer Katie Morris Similar to many of us in the Pacific Northwest, but unique to most amphibians, the red-legged frog prefers cool weather. The red-legged frog, or Rana aurora “dawn frog” in Latin, gets its name because of the distinctive...
by Joy Stewart | Nov 9, 2017 | Native animals
By: Guest Writer Michael Teton Photo by: Ray Owens Have you ever seen small mounds of wood chips at the base of trees? If you live in the Pacific Northwest, during the fall season that tree is probably the new home of a Pileated Woodpecker! This species of woodpecker...
by Joy Stewart | Nov 9, 2017 | Goings on at SHADOW, Local environmentalism, Native animals, Native plants, News
If you have been for a walk on the grounds of the Nature Preserve or any Pacific Northwest forest in the last month, chances are you have spotted some mushrooms. Fall rain in this region brings about a generous crop and wide variety of mushrooms, which seem to pop up...
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