Flora and Fauna
Cascade Head is home to many native plant species, including Red Fescue, wild rye, Pacific Reedgrass, coastal paintbrush, goldenrod, blue violet and stream bank Lupine. The Hairy checkermallow is a rare flower found here.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's population of the Cascade Head catchfly is found here. The Oregon silverspot butterfly, federally listed as a threatened species, is known to only five other locations in the world. The butterfly depends on a single plant species, the early blue violet (which grows coastal grassland openings), to serve as food for its larvae. Elk, deer, coyote, snowshoe hare and the Pacific giant salamander are also found in the preserve, as well as bald eagle, great horned owl, northern harrier, red-tail hawk and the occasional peregrine falcon.
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