NPSO 2019 Annual Meeting

July 12-14     Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains

Field Trips

Saturday July 13, 2019    8:15 - 4:30                    Field Trip # 23

Difficulty:     Difficult  (5.8 miles) - Trail begins with a steep incline for 0.7 miles.

Elevation:     1400' elevation gain, 3700'-5100'

Group Size Limit:     8

Trip Description:     Beautiful tour of the Red Buttes Wilderness through old-growth mixed conifer forest, wet meadow and rocky alpine meadow. We will visit Frog Pond, a shallow lily pad lake and flower-filled meadow system. We may also visit one of the southernmost stands of Alaska yellow-cedar at the edge of Frog Pond meadows. If time allows we will carry on to Cameron Meadows.

Floristic Highlights:     Brewer's spruce, Alaska yellow-cedar, huckleberry oak, wet meadow species; massive tiger lilies, peridotite and granite rock outcrops.

Appropriate Footwear:     Hiking boots

Special Considerations:     Winter storms may have downed some trees over the trail. Be prepared to scramble over or around logs. Bring trekking poles if you use them.

Meeting Place and Time:     Trip # 23 leaves at 8:15 from Pacifica.

Alternate Meeting:     To accomodate trip members who aren't staying at Pacifica, this trip will also pick up members at its first stop at Star Ranger Station at 8:45am, (6941 Upper Applegate Road).

Driving Directions:     Hwy. 238 to Upper Applegate Road., to the intersection of Carberry Creek and Elliot Creek roads. Turn left on Elliot Creek Road for 1.2 miles and turn right on FS Road 1040 for 6.9 miles to the Frog Pond trailhead.

Driving miles from Pacifica to trailhead:     45 miles one way from Pacifica (Drive time is about 1 1/4 hours.)

Leaders:       Julie Spelletich & Richard Callagan

Julie Spelletich is a co-owner of Siskiyou BioSurvey, an ecological and botanical consulting service. She has a deep love for anything botanical and has been working in southern Oregon forests for 13 years. She has a special interest in native seed propagation and collecting. She has served on the board of the Siskiyou Chapter NPSO in various capacities for the last nine years and this is her second time organizing the annual meeting. Her early love of plants was expressed through her extensive work in organic farming, nursery work, and seed growing with Seeds of Change and on her own farm in New Mexico.

Richard Callagan is a southern Oregon native and co-founder of Siskiyou BioSurvey, an ecological and botanical consulting service. He has been conducting botanical surveys for 32 years and is intimately familiar with the vascular, bryophyte, lichen and fungi species of Oregon. Previously, he worked in other forest-related jobs including reforestation, trail construction, thinning, and stocking surveys. Richard has a wealth of knowledge from botany, history, ecology and wildlife biology that he is looking forward to sharing with you.

Wiggins' lily - Lilium pardalinum ssp. wigginsii

Frog Pond Meadows

Alaska yellow-cedars near Frog Pond.

Frog Pond meadows

View into Cameron Meadows above Frog Pond from Mt. Emily.