For my third natural area excursion, I went to Placerville in El Dorado County of California, USA. There, I walked the El Dorado Trail for about 4 miles. The landscape is slightly hilly and primarily oak woodland. The soil is orange/red in color and clay-like, I believe it is something like gabbro soil. The vegetation is mostly oak trees, some gray pines, grasses, and a couple manzanita shrubs. El Dorado County is a very botanically diverse area. If you’d like to read more about it, I recommend you do so here at https://www.eldoradocnps.org/plants/ecology.

1 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45299061

2 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45298781

3 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45298594

4 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45293826

5 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45293759

6 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45293389

7 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45293179

8 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45292987

9 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45292513

Posted on May 8, 2020 09:10 PM by berklyh22