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By the second week in April, I was eager to see how spring was progressing in the nearby woodlands. Our earliest bloomers in Rappahannock County usually start in the lower elevations in March, but this winter had been so long and cold that I wasn’t sure what I’d find.
Taking a hike in a nearby woodland along Big Indian Stream, I saw huge stretches of mayapple. The little plants had not yet unfurled their umbrellalike leaves, hugging them close to their stems, as if in an effort to keep warm. As their name implies, I didn’t expect to see them bloom for another month.
In the wetter areas were lots of bright green skunk cabbage. If you want to know if bears have come out of hibernation in your area, look for a skunk cabbage patch to see if it’s intact.
While our black bears often don’t truly hibernate because of relatively mild winters, they still dine on this vitamin-filled roughage eagerly when they emerge in the spring, cleaning
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