Grizzly bears exhibit a diverse and adaptable diet 🐻. In the intertidal zone, they capitalize on the rich food sources available. These resourceful bears often feed on a variety of intertidal creatures, including clams, mussels, crabs, and barnacles. They skillfully navigate the rocky shorelines, using their powerful claws to dig and overturn rocks to access hidden delicacies 🦀🐚🦪. Grizzly bears also take advantage of the annual salmon runs, eagerly catching fish swimming upstream to spawn. T

Intertidal Zone

Over the last nine years, we’ve had success winter sowing the following plants below. Sown between Jan.-March in the PNW, zone 8b, some in containers and some seeded directly. 🥬Kale, collards, cabbage, broccoli, arugula, chard, spinach, lettuce, radicchio, mache, claytonia, scallions, leek, wild leek, walking onion, earth chestnut, & artichoke. 🌿cilantro, spiked thyme, mint, savory, dill, fennel, parsley, oregano, sage, lemon balm, and chives. 🌸Yarrow, marigold, cosmos, columbine, echinacea,

This is slow motion hunting in-action!! ⭐️ In the intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest, you can often find beautiful and colourful ochre sea stars suction cupped to rocks with their strong tube feet. If they come across a delicious clump of mussels, they will wrap their bodies around the bivalve and use those thousands of strong feet to pry the two shells apart to devour the meat inside. How cool is that?! 🤩 #biodiversity #pacificnorthwest #beachcombing #tidepools #lowtide #naturalist #natu