paintbrush
july-15
today was an early start to the day, we woke up at 6:30 in the morning with the sound of Jessica waking us all up. Our destination today was a shrub-steppe in the pine mountain area to help wildlife management with an elusive plant. The weather was cloudy and there was a sprinkle here and there but it was overall an amazing day to work outside. It took about an hour and a half to reach our destination We worked with Marlo Fischer and Charmaine Powers to help locate green tinged paintbrush. The plant we are looking for is native and only found in Oregon, most of the plants we found were lime colored and looked a little different from a traditional paintbrush plant. Our main objective is to locate the plants to help preserve the elusive plant from something we learned a couple days ago called prescribed fires. The scientific name of the plant is called Castilleja Chlorotica, the plant is considered forest sensitive. The fact that surprised me was the green tinged paintbrush is parasitic so it's always found near a host plant and I've never heard of a parasitic plant. To find the plant we all had to walk in a line across the shrub-steppe and place flags next to the paintbrush. The tinged paintbrush was usually found in bunches so we placed a flag next to bunch we found, the last survey in the area was done back in 1994. They found a total of 87 plants in 1994 and today we found 414 green tinged paintbrush. I feel like we accomplished something great today, we finished around 2:30 PM and we went straight for the obsidian flow trail. The drive was about 45 minutes there and it was well worth the wait the view from on top of the obsidian mountain was outstanding!
today was an early start to the day, we woke up at 6:30 in the morning with the sound of Jessica waking us all up. Our destination today was a shrub-steppe in the pine mountain area to help wildlife management with an elusive plant. The weather was cloudy and there was a sprinkle here and there but it was overall an amazing day to work outside. It took about an hour and a half to reach our destination We worked with Marlo Fischer and Charmaine Powers to help locate green tinged paintbrush. The plant we are looking for is native and only found in Oregon, most of the plants we found were lime colored and looked a little different from a traditional paintbrush plant. Our main objective is to locate the plants to help preserve the elusive plant from something we learned a couple days ago called prescribed fires. The scientific name of the plant is called Castilleja Chlorotica, the plant is considered forest sensitive. The fact that surprised me was the green tinged paintbrush is parasitic so it's always found near a host plant and I've never heard of a parasitic plant. To find the plant we all had to walk in a line across the shrub-steppe and place flags next to the paintbrush. The tinged paintbrush was usually found in bunches so we placed a flag next to bunch we found, the last survey in the area was done back in 1994. They found a total of 87 plants in 1994 and today we found 414 green tinged paintbrush. I feel like we accomplished something great today, we finished around 2:30 PM and we went straight for the obsidian flow trail. The drive was about 45 minutes there and it was well worth the wait the view from on top of the obsidian mountain was outstanding!
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