Oh how interesting! Yes, there's big sagebrush (artemisia tridentata), one little weird prickly pear cactus I think optunia fragilis, rabbitbrush which is I think the most prevalent woody perennial, bunchgrass, some ponderosa, all through that area. Really the canyon drive is enough to give anyone with ecological awareness whiplash.
Definitely that soil needs stabilization. Come to think of it, the slides mostly occurred deeper in the canyon, where the douglas fir was starting to think about shifting to the coastal type or right before, and after the brushy dry areas.
One of the forestry projects in BC right now is to prevent the dry open treeless areas from expanding, and to keep some ponderosa/doug fir on the landscape as climate change occurs-- without a dense enough pattern that it leads to more fires.
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Definitely that soil needs stabilization. Come to think of it, the slides mostly occurred deeper in the canyon, where the douglas fir was starting to think about shifting to the coastal type or right before, and after the brushy dry areas.
One of the forestry projects in BC right now is to prevent the dry open treeless areas from expanding, and to keep some ponderosa/doug fir on the landscape as climate change occurs-- without a dense enough pattern that it leads to more fires.