There is such a wide variety of wildlife here at Hemlock Valley Park, each so beautiful and graceful in their own ways. If you choose to climb aboard one of our guided tours through the forests, you will have an experience of a lifetime!
Trees western red cedar, yellow cedar, western hemlcok, mountain hemlock, western yew, coast Douglas fir, amabilis fir, grand fir, coast redwood, Sitka spruce, red alder, lodgepole pine, western white pine, shore pine, Engelmann spruce, Garry oak, and pacific dogwood.
Plants salal, Oregon grape,arbutus, sword fern, skunk cabbage, salmonberry, devil’s club, western bleeding heart, red huckleberry, old man's beard, red elderberry, calypso orchid, and Viola langsdorfii. Animals
Mammals Large herbivores: black-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose, caribou and mountain goat. Large carnivores: black bear, grizzly bear, wold, and mountain lion. Smaller herbivores: beaver, snow shoe hare, American pika, applodontia, hoary marmot, Vancouver marmot, townsed chipmunk, and chickaree can be found here. Small carnivores: wolverine, mink, riverotter, spotted skunk, raccoon, red fox, and marten. Aquatic mammals: northern sea lion, northern fur seal, Alaskan fur seal, harbor seal, elephant seal, California sea lion, giant beaked whale, sperm whale, grey whale, orca, Pacific pilot whale, and blue whale. Birds Birds of prey: northern pigmy owl, northern saw-whet owl, short-eared owl, long-eared owl, spotted owl, turkey vulture, bald eagle, and red-tailed hawk. Shorebirds and seabirds: American black oysterchatcher, tufted puffin, glacous-winged gull, pelagic cormorant, spotted sandpiper, common snipe, pigeon guillemot, rhinoceros auklet, and killdeer. The waterfowl of the region include great blue heron, wood duck, northern pintail, blue-winged teal, mallard, Canada goose, trumpeter swan, and sandhill crane. Songbirds: chestnut-backed chickadee, Steller'd jay, northwestern crow, red-winged blackbird, cedar waxwing, purple finch, brown creeper, American dipper, and brewer's blackbird. Birds of the forest: California quail, mountain quail, spruce grouse, ruffed grouse, blue grouse, Lewis' woodpecker, band-tailed pigeon, and downy woodpecker.
Amphibians and Reptiles Frog and toad species: western toad, red-legged frog, pacific treefrog, wood frog, and tailed frog. Characteristic salamanders and newts: roughskin newt, long-toed salamander, northwestern salamander, pacific giant salamander, western redback salamander, and Eschscholtz's salamander. Turtles: leatherback turtle and green turtle. Snakes and lizards: garter snake, western terrestrial garter snake, sharptail snake, northwestern garter snake, and northern aligator lizard.
Fish Pacific salmon, pacific herring, pacific halibut, steelhead, cutthroat trout, dolly varden, rainbow smelt, peamouth, and coastrange sculpin, western brook lamprey, pacific lamprey, river lamprey, green sturgeon, white sturgeon, pink salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, and sockeye salmon.
Molluscs Oval lake-limpet, western-river pearl mussel, western floater and arctic-alpine fingernail clam. Insects Red turpentine beetle, Nicrophorus sayi, European earwig, spring azure, American copper, monarch butterfly, mourning cloak, and migratory grasshopper.