California Ecosystems - Wet Mountain Meadow (original) Canada_Goose Evening Primrose

Evening Primrose

Scratchboard piece featuring Ravens in the Redwood forest

like all vultures

California Thrashers (Toxostoma redivivum) use their long

) that are the dominant shurbs across much of the Great Basin are an important source of food and shelter for the Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)

California Ecosystems - Wet Mountain Meadow (original) Canada_Goose Evening PrimroseComing upon a wet meadow in the dry forests of the Western U. S. is similar to finding an oasis in the desert. A unique communtiy of plants and animals depends on the year round water there. Leopard Lillies (Lilim pardalinum) and Shooting Stars (Primula jeffreyi) both require wet places to grow. Sierra Nevada Blue Butterfly caterpillars (Plebejus podarce) eat Shooting Stars and Hunt's Bumblebee (Bombus huntii) pollinates many different flowers.