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Field Trip: Beatty Creek- Beatty Rock
April 13 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Saturday April 13 or Sunday April 14, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Field Trip: Beatty Creek- Beatty Rock
Beatty Rock is monolithic outcropping of conglomerate in the lower Cow Creek watershed. This is one of our favorite spots. The wildflower display is continuously changing all spring. We will explore along lower Cow Creek Road to examine the California sword fern (Polystichum californicum), Hooker’s fairy bells, a rare moss (Pseudoleskeella serpentinensis), the fairy slipper orchid (Calypso bulbosa), grass widows, (Olsynium douglasii), coast trillium (Trillium ovatum) and a rarely seen yellow Lomatium sp. Parking is limited, ride sharing is advised.
If you’re coming from south of Roseburg, you can meet us in the McDonald’s parking lot on the Riddle Interstate-5, 103 exit road. Let us know if you are meeting us there. We should be there around 9:20 am (departing Roseburg at 9:00 am.)
Contact Rod Trotter at 541-672-1907 or M. A. Hansen at 541-863-8111 with questions or for details. It is imperative that you call Rod or M.A. again the night before the trip to confirm your plans to attend and to confirm the schedule has not changed. We often have to change the date on short notice due to bloom or weather unpredictability, or country emergency road closures.