Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms
The Questionable Stropharia (Stropharia ambigua) is an unmistakably handsome, elegant gilled mushroom native to the damp, mossy coniferous rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Instantly distinguished by its rich egg-yolk to golden-yellow cap adorned around its rim...
Invertebrates > Crustaceans
The Flat Porcelain Crab (Petrolisthes cinctipes) is a charming, wafer-thin intertidal crustacean native to the rocky, wave-swept shores of the Pacific Northwest and California. While resembling a true crab, it is an anomuran closely related to squat lobsters, renowned...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Cascade Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton cascadae) is a small, cold-adapted amphibian endemic strictly to the volcanic Cascade Mountain Range of Washington and Oregon. Specialized for living in the splash zones and cold gravel trickles of mountain waterfalls, it...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
The Columbia Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton kezeri) is a charming, hyper-specialized amphibian belonging to the ancient, endemic Pacific Northwest family Rhyacotritonidae. Inhabiting cold, moss-covered gravel seepages and waterfall splash zones in old-growth coastal...
Amphibians > Salamanders & Newts
Cope’s Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon copei) is an extraordinary, cold-stream amphibian endemic to the old-growth temperate rainforests of western Washington and Oregon. Named in honor of renowned 19th-century paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, this fascinating...
