Animal life in a redwood forest is limited because the shaded conditions provide scarce food. Many animals that do live here feed at night, as owls and bats do, or in early morning and around dusk, as deer do. Mammals most often seen are the Sonoma chipmunk and the blacktail deer. Y ou may hear the scolding of Steller's jays or the raucous cawing of ravens. Warblers, kinglets, and thrushes migrate, living here for part of the year.
Wrens live here year round.
Reptiles and amphibians are represented by western garter snakes, rubber boas, several species of lizards, salamanders and newts. C oastal Redwood trees dominate the forest. With them grow Douglas-fir, big leaf maple, tanbark oak, and bay laurel. At the lower end of Muir Woods Canyon, red alders line the stream and buckeyes cluster nearby. Shaded bays growing toward the light may assume contorted shapes or topple over.