I stayed with the trees until after the sun went down. When the last light was almost gone from the sky, it illuminated the giants in soft patches—only small pieces of the vast trunks visible—the rest vanished into shadow.
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I hadn't been there very long when the sound of the Pileated Woodpecker pecking ferociously at the moss-covered tree trunk began to echo throughout the quiet forest floor.
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The Red Clintonia is found only in foggy coastal forests from Northern California to Oregon.
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This Juvenile Great Horned Owl with fluffy feathers was perched on the branch of a Bay Laurel tree.
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On a late July morning, a group of volunteers gathered in Wildcat Canyon. They were there to assess the health of a population of Santa Cruz tarplant, a rare plant that grows in the canyon.
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Encountering an owl in the wild is an otherworldly experience. It’s often fleeting —perhaps only a glimpse of silent feathers flying through the dark forest.
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