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View of Dagger Lake with its margin of wetlands.
Photo: Ben Legler
2006: Dagger Lake

The second trip to NOCA in 2006 was made to Dagger Lake. WTU's Ben Legler and NOCA's Steve Hahn led a group of five volunteers on a 4 day, 3 night backpacking trip to collect around this isolated lake and surrounding slopes. Dagger Lake is located on the eastern edge of the park south of Hwy 20 and can be reached by a 6 mile moderate hike south from Rainy Pass.

In addition to the wetlands around Dagger Lake, the group collected at Stiletto Peak, Stiletto Lake, and in the huge cirque on the north side of Hoch Mountain. The trip began and ended under sunny skies; however, a cold snap during mid trip brought in a few snow flakes.

By trip's end, 167 collections were made, for a total of over 450 individual specimens. 154 taxa were collected, with 11 of those taxa (7.2%) representing new additions to the NOCA park herbairum. Notable finds included Cerastium beeringianum, Saxifraga adscendens, and 12 species of Carex

The capable assistance of Heather, NOCA's horse wrangler, was provided to haul collecting presses to and from Dagger Lake.

Participating volunteers included Maria Gerace, Charlie Baughman, Myria Rodeman and Student Conservation Associates Nathan Walker and Matt Lee.



# Collections: 167
# Specimens: 452
# Taxa: 152
# New Taxa: 11

  
Trip Map

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

23 collections: North Cascades National Park. North face of Hock Mountain, approximately 0.25 mile northeast of the summit at base of vertical cliffs, just above the talus fields. 7 collections: North Cascades National Park. East edge of talus pile circa 0.5 mile northeast of summit of Hock Mountain and 0.25 mile west of summit of Twisp Mountain. 8 collections: North Cascades National Park. North side of Hock Mountain, on the east side of the large boulder strewn moraine/tongue; 0.75 mile northeast of summit. 1 collections: North Cascades National Park. Along Dagger Lake trail, circa 0.4 mile west of Dagger Lake. 48 collections: North Cascades National Park. Dagger Lake circa 3 air miles southeast of Rainy Pass. 34 collections: North Cascades National Park. Lake on southeast side of Stiletto Peak, 1 mile north of Dagger Lake. 25 collections: North Cascades National Park. South side of Stiletto Peak. Stiletto Lake - 100 meters south of lake. 22 collections: North Cascades National Park. South side of Stiletto Peak, northeast of Stiletto Lake, along the bottom of cliff bands, just above a large talus slope, about 250 feet above the lake. On the border of Okanogan National Forest and North Cascades National Park.
Map created with TOPO!. © 2006 National Geographic.
Trip Results
 # Collections  167  »View Collection List
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 # Specimens  452  
 # Taxa  152  »View Taxa List
 # New Taxa   11   

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

Antennaria media
Callitriche palustris
Carex jonesii
Eleocharis suksdorfiana
Elymus elymoides ssp. californicus
Epilobium palustre
Ligusticum canbyi
Oryzopsis exigua
Packera streptanthifolia
Platanthera dilatata var. leucostachys
Saxifraga adscendens var. oregonensis


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