Our local Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) watch the photographer curiously. One starts to leave. The single-aged forest of blue oaks (Quercus douglasii) is rumored to have grown after workers building Searsville Dam in the late 1880s cut down the previous trees. So-called Indian warrior (Pedicularis densiflora), a root parasite with the oaks, blooms red in the grassy forest floor. Yellow flowers too. From Trail 4 near Road F, 2/25/2016, 7:58 am.