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• Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Point Gray, Vancouver area, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.
  o 49°14'55.0"N 123°13'38.3"W

• In a forest
• On a tree log with other species of moss
• Has low exposure to sunlight
• Roughly 0.3m elevation from ground
• Associated with different species of moss
• No sporophyte
• Has radiating midribs (main midrib is long and is sided by two shorter fainter ones)
• Yellow green tufts
• Dark red stem
• Accompanied by no one

• Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Point Gray, Vancouver area, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  o 49°14'54.6"N 123°13'31.9"W.

• In forest
• On a tree stump by a pathway
• Has low-medium exposure to sunlight
• 0.0-1.0m elevation from ground

• Scapania bolanderi is the dominating species on the stump
  o There’s a bunch of leaves on the top of the stump and some moss here and there

• Observable oil bodies
• Has widely separated teeth of the dorsal lobe compared to finely dentist central lobes
• Leafy plant
• Lobes round to obtuse
• Accompanied by Catherine

• Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Point Gray, Vancouver area, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  o 9°14'55.0"N 123°13'39.1"W.

• On soil in a forest floor opening surrounded by leaves
• Has medium exposure to sunlight
• In forest
• 0.0m elevation from ground

• Associated with no other moss species
  o Surrounded by leaves and shoots of other plants

• Hairless calyptra
• Seta and sporangium are red brown
• Contorted leaves when dry
• Teeth in diagonal lines on lower leaf surface
• Accompanied by no one

• Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, North Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.
  o 49°20'36.1"N 123°06'49.7"W.

• In forest
• On soil by a pathway near ferns and other low growing plants
• Has medium exposure to sunlight
• 0.0m elevation from ground
• Not associated with other mosses or species

• Abundant
  o Observed similar mosses along pathway on crevices of cliff walls and by/on tree stumps

• Yellow-green with feather like appearance
• Pinnately branched
• Single costa
• Teeth on leaf
• Accompanied by Olivia

• Cypress Mountain, West Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  o 49°23'31.4"N 123°12'17.4"W

• On soil and roots on an overarching small cliff/snowbank
• Has medium-high exposure to sunlight
• By a ski slope on a mountain
• Over 1.0m elevation from ground
• Surrounded by lichen, wood and small non-vascular plants
• Smooth lamellae
• Green leaves with red-brown tip
• Leaves upright when dry and wide spreading when wet
• Acrocarpous
• Laminar edges overarch the leaf
• Red/brown sporangium
• Accompanied by no one

The striping on the blooms doesn't seem to be typical of this species. It is clear on the middle three blooms and in close examination of a high resolution version of the photo is faintly present in the blooms above and below, drying and developing. We will watch in the area next year for more like this. It seems that the plant will bloom just once.

On the way up to Tricouni Meadows saw the bear across a creek.
This bear was feeding on a Mountain Goat. It is not known if the bear caught the goat or acquired it from another predator. The bear was first spotted in the trees above the kill In the nearby wooded area. There was open alpine land with a steep slope down to a creek. The bear then went back into the wood and emerged inline with goat and started to pull it into the wooded area.