Askel, you should have seen the irises and Fremontia lillies this last spring; they were everywhere. I started a biotic survey. So far we have 207 species of plants in one 14 acre parcel. It's extraordinary. And yet, there's a long way to go with many serious threats. I honestly don't know how we'll succeed without God's help.
This is a Fremontia Lily. They're about four feet tall.
Here are the flowers.
Hundreds of them, where there were none.
We had a similar experience last spring on our property in Toulumne County, where we have spent the last three winters removing and burning brush that had acumulated over the last 80 years or so. - The place was covered with millions of wild flowers, where there had been ugly dense brush, and the ponds were full of hundreds of different species of aquatic insects, amphibians, worms, and even turtles.
The place looked like the city dump with trees when we bought it. It's hard to imagine how much progress can be made in a short time.