Explore the Flora, Fauna, and Miscellanea of the Pacific Northwest!
All the photographs on this page are organized (tagged) by taxonomy, common name, and location. You can easily browse these tags to explore specific groups of organisms, broad groups of organisms, or the organisms that occur in a certain region. Below are some links to particularly useful tags which might be of interest to my readers!

If you’d like to view some of my favorites, try the portraits tag!

Creepy and Crawly:

• spiders
• scorpions
• mites
• beetles
• moths
• butterflies
• caterpillars
• grasshoppers
• true bugs
• flies
• bees
• wasps
• caddisflies
• millipedes

Squishy and Slimy:

• sea stars, urchins, cucumbers
• sea anemones
• slugs and snails
• nudibranchs
• crabs, barnacles, other crustaceans
• tunicates, sea squirts
• algae and “sea weeds”
• intertidal life
  
• slime molds

Big and Charismatic:

• mammals
• birds
• reptiles
• amphibians
• fish

Fungi and Lichen:

• fungi
• cap mushrooms
• cup mushrooms
• lichen
• crustose lichen
• not a fungus

Green and Growing:

• flowers
• conifers
• cones
  
• fruit
• seeds
• ferns
• moss
• leaves
• forests
• grasses

Weather and Geology:

• rocks
• fall
• frost
• snow
• sunsets
• coastlines
• mountains
• rivers and streams
• lakes
• landscapes

Location, Location, Location:

• Montana
  Missoula
  Glacier National Park
  National Bison Range
  Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge
  Seeley Lake
• Washington
  Tacoma
  Mount Rainier National Park
  Olympic National Park
  North Cascades National Park
  Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
  Wenatchee National Forest
  Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park
  Slater Museum of Natural History
• Oregon
• Idaho
• California
• British Columbia
• Alberta
• This is definitely not the Pacific Northwest…