Assignments

• Factsheets
• Journal

Class Goals

Field Trips

• Trip 1
• Trip 2
• Trip 3

Schedule

Student Issues

• Grades
• Responsibilities

Teaching Team

• Instructor
• TA

Background material on:

• Biogeography
• Biology 162
• Climate & Climate Change
• Fire Ecology
• Forest & Tree Growth
• Forest structure
• Gradients
• Phenology
• Serpentine
• Species Factsheets

References

Archival Material

Field Trips Historical

• Rattlesnake Ridge (2007)
• Lake Tradition
• Asahel Curtis
• North Fork

• Brady, K.U., A.R. Kruckeberg, and H.D. Bradshaw Jr. 2005. Evolutionary ecology of plant adaptation to serpentine soils. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36:243-266. (pdf file)
• Detailed paper on Serpentine Geology, Soils and Ecology (written as term project by Mason McKinley, ESC 520B, Spring 2001) (SerpentineMMcK.pdf).
• For those of you who have the Kruckeberg book (A.R. Kruckeberg. 2002. Geology and Plant Life. University of Washington Press), you should read chapter 3 and the section on Serpentine rock and soils (pp. 160 - 203).

Map: On the upper right is Mt. Stuart, part of the granitic dome (pinkish orange). On the flanks of this dome are the purple colored ultramafic minerals (including serpentine), the dark and light blue are diabases and the yellow is alluvium. Not shown but just below the bottom edge is a sandstone. If one had access to a topographic map, one could find the borders between the serpentine and the diabase. Key locations are Ingalls Peak, Lake Ingalls, Lake Ann, Esmeralda Peak.

Photographs: Notice the coarseness of the soil and the scarity of vegetation (images with snow were taken on different field trips).