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A Pacific Northwest forest planted with Douglas fir, cedar, hemlock and larch underplanted with evergreen huckleberry, salal and ferns transitions to an open woodland of native dogwood trees, red twig dogwood and flowering red currant.

In tough conditions, salal grows more like a ground cover, only reaching a foot high.

Dix organized work parties to clear paths and applied for a $2,200 King Conservation District grant to landscape and replant it with native plants — bunchberry, Oregon grape, flowering currant, salal.

Salmonberry, salal, evergreen huckleberry and more probably are lurking nearby.

Sword ferns battle it out next to salal and Oregon grape, beneath draping Western red cedar and stout Douglas firs.