Spring Planting and Stream Stewarding

I made some raised beds using logs from alder that I took out to create some sun exposure.

I’ve been planting shrubs: blue elderberry, red elderberry, thimbleberry, twinberry, dewberry, mock orange, pearfruit rose, and cascara, along with the 50-ish sitka spruce I mentioned in the previous post.

Lil Bud
Lil Bud Too
Blue Elderberry rearing to go

It’s the time of year when it’s relatively easy to get back into the forested wetland, and I’ve been finding things that I hadn’t noticed before.

Old growth stump w/ gloves in springboard holes for scale
Part of the stream are a series of large ponds

I’ve been participating in this years training for the Kitsap Stream Steward program.

The eddies I see from time to time are sinks into underground chambers.