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Packing up specimens at Lightning Creek Camp on Ross Lake.
Photo: Ben Legler
2002: Ross Lake

WTU's Sarah Gage, with assistance from NOCA's Steve Hahn, led a trip to Ross Lake July 12-14. This outing required a boat trip up Ross Lake for access to the area around Desolation Peak and several creek valleys feeding into Ross Lake. 274 collections were made in three days, totaling over 720 specimens and 184 taxa. Sites targeted included alpine habitat on Desolation Peak, dry slopes around the mouth of Lightning Creek, and forested areas along Little Beaver and Perry creeks. Lining the eastern shoreline of Ross Lake are pockets of dry forest with species typically found east of the Cascade Mountains such as ponderosa pine, Rocky Mountain juniper, and balsamroot.

Specimens collected on the trip were identified at WTU in fall 2002/winter 2003, with assistance provided by a Graduate Research Assistantship funded by North Cascades National Park.

Volunteers from WTU included Barb Smith, Ben Legler, Dena Grossenbacher, James Duemmel, Kimiora Ward, Peter Zika, Phil Smith.

Additional participating NOCA staff included Michael Brondi, Greg Gust, and Justin Hohn.



# Collections: 274
# Specimens: 720
# Taxa: 184
# New Taxa: 17

  
Trip Map

Yellow dots represent collection sites. Click on a site to view a list of collections.

1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: About 1/4 mile down from Ross Dam from Happy Flats Trailhead. 4 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; West side of Ross Lake; along abandoned McMillan homestead trail, SW side of Big Beaver Creek, 0.7 km west of footbridge by creek mouth and campground. 2 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; West shore of Ross Lake at Big Beaver Campground, 0.3 km east of mouth of Big Beaver Creek. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Big Beaver Valley; Big Beaver Campground at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek. 4 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Big Beaver Valley; wetland in front of the McMillan homestead, first pond on the map on the south side of Big Beaver Creek from mouth of creek. [Coordinates given in field notes are clearly incorrect: 48° 58.3' N, 121° 1.1' W] 5 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area. East Bank Tr., S of Lightning Creek. 13 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: South of Lightning Creek on East Bank Trail. 20 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; along east side of Ross Lake, 200 meters south of the Lightning Creek footbridge. 3 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: East Bank Trail, south of Lightning Creek. 2 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Lightning Creek Campground on south side of mouth of Lightning Creek, east shore of Ross Lake. 4 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; along east side of Ross Lake near Lightning Creek. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: East Bank Trail; rocky outcrop just north of Lightning Creek bridge. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Lightning Creek Trail. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Lightning Creek Trail. 2 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Lighting Creek Trail, about 1 mile above Ross Lake. 4 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area. Boundary trail going E along Lightning Creek after suspension bridge. Lightning Creek Trail, flowing stream crossing. 23 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: 0.75 miles north of mouth of Lighting Creek on Desolation Peak Trail; 50 meters east of trail. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along Desolation Peak Trail. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; east side of Ross Lake; about 1/2 mile up the Desolation Peak Trail adjacent to the only flowing stream crossed. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Desolation Peak Trail on east side of Ross Lake. 3 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along Desolation Peak Trail. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along Desolation Peak Trail. 2 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Desolation Peak; 10 switchbacks down from the established camp on lower Desolation Ridge. 13 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Desolation Peak; about 100 meters south of established camps on Desolation Ridge. 10 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area. Summit of Desolation Peak, lookout. Avalanche gully lower. 2 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; ridgeline south of summit of Desolation Peak on east side of Ross Lake. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along Desolation Peak Trail. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; ridgeline south of summit of Desolation Peak on east side of Ross Lake. 5 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; summit of Desolation Peak on east side of Ross Lake. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; near the summit of Desolation Peak. 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along cliffs east of the summit of Desolation Peak. 15 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Desolation Mountain Trail; at and around lookout at top of mountain. 7 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area; Little Beaver Creek trail along north side of Little Beaver Creek, west side of Ross Lake. 13 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Little Beaver Creek Trail near small, unnamed stream. 23 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Little Beaver Creek Trail; north brink of canyon mouth. 4 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Along Little Beaver Creek Trail, at overlook about 0.5 miles above Little Beaver Campground. 24 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Little Beaver Creek trail. Along trail on east-facing slope, within 0.5 miles of trailhead (before switchbacks that take trail northwest and finally west). 1 collections: Ross Lake National Recreation Area: Little Beaver Creek Trail at Little Beaver Campground along the north side of the mouth of Little Beaver Creek. 23 collections: North Cascades National Park; Perry Creek Shelter, near confluence of Perry Creek and Little Beaver Creek. 34 collections: Little Beaver Trail, about 1 mile east of Perry Creek; North Cascades National Park.
Map created with TOPO!. © 2006 National Geographic.
Trip Results
 # Collections  274  »View Collection List
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 # Specimens  720  
 # Taxa  184  »View Taxa List
 # New Taxa   17   

New Park Records:
The following taxa were not previously documented from within the NOCA park complex with a voucher specimen at the NOCA Herbarium:

Agoseris grandiflora
Allium cernuum
Amelanchier alnifolia var. humptulipensis
Artemisia michauxiana
Botrychium lanceolatum ssp. lanceolatum
Botrychium montanum
Bromus vulgaris
Fragaria vesca ssp. bracteata
Juncus effusus ssp. effusus
Lathyrus nevadensis ssp. lanceolatus var. pilosellus
Lysichiton americanus
Melica subulata
Penstemon procerus var. procerus
Potentilla arguta ssp. convallaria
Pyrola minor
Rubus pedatus
Rupertia physodes


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