EBEY'S LANDING National Historical Reserve NATURALIST'S GUIDE Spring and Summer

WOODLAND You'll find most of the reserve's accessible forest lands in Fort Ebey State Park and Rhododendron Park. These dense forests contain mostly alder and second- and third-growth Douglas-fir and western red cedar — with an understory of salal and rhododendron. Some forested areas are steep-sided with glacial depressions called kettles, some over 200 feet deep. Common Plants Bald hipped rose (N) Bedstraw (N) Big leaf rhododendron (N) Bracken fern (N) Douglas-fir (N) Foamflower (N) Grand fir (N) Oceanspray (N) Oregon grape (N) Red alder (N) Red elderberry (N) Red huckleberry (N) Salal (N) Snowberry (N) Starflower (N) Sword fern (N) Trailing blackberry (N) Twinflower (N) Western hemlock (N) Wester red cedar (N) Western white pine (N) Willow (N) Wining honeysuckle willow (N) Watch for... American crow American robin Chestnut-backed chickadee Dark-eyed junco Golden-crowned kinglet (Spring) Great-horned owl* Song sparrow Black-tailed deer Douglas squirrel (N) = Native species * Rarely seen, but commonly heard in spring. Woodland | Prairie/Open | Wetland/Lagoon | Beach/Bluff