For those on the field trip(s) out of Bend last week... Here are the field trip locations. Note that these are approximate, since people were pretty well spread out.
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Thursday, informal field trip
North slopes with scattered Pinus ponderosa and Juniperus occidentalis in bunchgrass and shrub steppe with Artemisia tridentata and basalt outcrops.
South side of Whychus Canyon Preserve, NE of Sisters
Elevation: 915 m 44.341o N 121.450oW
USA: OREGON: DESCHUTES COUNTY
Coll. B. McCune No. _________
with NW Lichenologists at NW Scientific Association meeting
24 March 2016
Saturday, Stop 1.
Juniperus occidentalis woodland with bunchgrasses and pumice soils, just S of Highway 126,
Biak Training Center on BLM land, east of Redmond
Elevation: 940 m 44.2542o N 120.0959o W
USA: OREGON: CROOK COUNTY
with NW Lichenologists at NW Scientific Association meeting
26 March 2016
Saturday, Stop 2.
Open Juniperus woodland with rhyolite outcrops and bunchgrasses, gentle slope near top of hill, just E of Highway 26
Rimrock Springs Wildlife Management Area, Crooked River National Grassland
Elevation: 969 m 44.4940o N 121.0508o W
USA: OREGON: JEFFERSON COUNTY
26 March 2016
with NW Lichenologists at NW Scientific Association meeting