BLM/OR/WAGI-97/011-1122
The Bureau of Land Management has published a booklet of BLM sites that are open to the public to view various wildflowers and habitat types. The book starts with a short introduction to the geologic forces that shaped the Columbia Basin. The book then describes the various habitat types encountered in the Columbia Basin and the environmental factors that are responsible for them. The principal author and editor of the book was Wenatchee Chapter Treasurer, Pam Camp, many of the photos in the book were taken by other members of our chapter.
The book then describes ten different BLM properties and gives maps of how to reach them. Each site also has a few of the more interesting plants present at the site pictured and a short anecdote about the plant.
The sites covered in the book are.
Each of the sites has a separate enclosed checklist of plants for the
area, giving both the common names as used in Ron Taylors "Sagebrush
Country" and Latin names following "Flora of the Pacific Northwest,"
by Hitchcock and Cronquist.
While an HTML page cannot display the true look of the book, a sample
page is available.
For more information on where to obtain this book contact:
Bureau of Land Management
Wenatchee Resource Area
915 Walla Walla
Wenatchee, WA 98801
(509) 665-2100