Highlights
Area Flora and Fauna | |
Trees | Aspen, ponderosa pine, silver and blue
spruce, willow, juniper, cedar, Gambel’s oak, Engleman spruce, cork bark fir, limber pine, cottonwood, Douglas fir.
| Wild Flowers |
Yucca, columbine, shrubbery, cinquefoil, scarlet trumpeter, fire cracker penstemon, alpine
lupine, evening primrose, iris, chokecherry, cow parsnip, false hellebore, march marigold, mariposa lily, false Solomon-seal,
white phlox, Canada violet, showey daisey, alpine buttercup, Oregon grape, fairy slipper, twinberry, snowberry, Indian paint
brush, rock columbine, scarlet gilia, wild geranium, fireweed, moss campion, wild rose, fairy primrose, shooting star, elephant
head, aster, clematis, hare bell, blue bell, forget-me-not, blue gentian, larkspur, monkshood, bistort, monkey flower,
butter and eggs. | |
Edible Berries | Raspberry, blueberry,
current, gooseberry, elderberry, strawberry, chokecherry. | |
Mushrooms | Boletus, giant puffball,
shaggy mane, chanterelle. | |
Animals | Beaver, black bear, chipmunk,
tassel-eared squirrel, mule deer, elk, coyote, skunk, mountain lion, bobcat, porcupine, marmot, ermine (weasel), cottontail
rabbit, snowshoe hare, raccoon, dormouse, muskrat, shrew, pika, swift fox. | |
Fish | German brown, rainbow, brook and cutthroat
trout; pike in nearby waters. | |
Birds | Broadtail and rufous hummingbird,
red-wing blackbird, rose-breasted and white-breasted nuthatch, tree swallow, mountain and western bluebird, robin, wren, western
tanager, junco, Clark’s nutcracker (camp robber), Stellar’s blue jay, common raven, evening and black-headed grosbeak,
nutcracker, mountain chickadee, dipper (ouzel), flicker, woodpecker (several), finch, wild turkey, grouse, duck (several), belted
king fisher, Audubon warbler, white-crowned sparrow, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, red-tailed hawk, dove, flycatcher,
owl (several), Canadian jay. | |
Snakes | Rare and non-poisonous |
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