Copper & Slim Sam Creeks - Summer 2025

Montana
Life Tables
Life table stem collection outing from Copper Creek in the Scapegoat Wilderness and Slim Sam Creek in the Elk Horn Mountains.
Published

June 25, 2025

Weather

⛅ Mid 80s, mostly sunny.

I drove out to Copper Creek to collect yellow toadflax for my life table project. Then, on the way back, I went to my Slim Sam Creek site to collect Dalmatian stems. This site is close to my Hog Hollow site, which is just up the road a little further.

Copper Creek Images

View from Copper Creek

Field truck parked at Copper Creek

Found an ornate checkered beetle, Trichodes ornatus

Slim Sam Images

Set up a data logger

Dalmatian toadflax

Dalmatian toadflax

Dalmatian toadflax

Dalmatian toadflax