Over the past three years, Selvig and her colleagues have found Oregon grape, sword fern and bracken fern, the red-berries of Sitka mountain ash and horsetail along the trails and throughout Opal Creek. They have watched willows and maple trees growing in large bushy clumps. And they’ve delighted at the abundance of blackberries, huckleberries and thimbleberries – copious after the fire because they thrive on the sunlight now no longer blocked by the tree canopy. Megan Selvig has pondered the de
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Over the past three years, Selvig and her colleagues have found Oregon grape, sword fern and bracken fern, the red-berries of Sitka mountain ash and horsetail along the trails and throughout Opal Creek. They have watched willows and maple trees growing in large bushy clumps. And they’ve delighted at the abundance of blackberries, huckleberries and thimbleberries – copious after the fire because they thrive on the sunlight now no longer blocked by the tree canopy. Megan Selvig has pondered the de
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