Trees and Plants

Acer or sugar maple

Willow Oak

Beech

Incense Cedar

Ponderosa Pine

Sugar Pine

 

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Mixed Conifer Forest

 

ANIMALS

Mammals

Black Bear

Chipmunk

Mountain Lion

Wolverine

Birds

Golden Eagle

Goshawk

Great Grey Owl

Mountain Quail

Willow Flycatcher

Reptiles & Amphibians

Limestone Salamander

Mountain King Snake

Pacific Tree Frog

Western ring-neck snake

Fish

Lahontan Cutthroat Trout

Little Kern Golden Trout

Insects

Black Tiger Beetle

California Sister Butterfly

Lorquin's Admiral Butterfly

Example of a Mixed Conifer Forest Food Web (click over)


    

    

Description

Mixed Conifer Forest of California

There is a lot of snow in the Winter.

There is little undergrowth on the forest floor.

Trees grow close together.

There are meadows.