Vernal Pool

Vernal Pool
Originally uploaded by Rexfree_99

This was the deepest of the pools after the last rain...I am pretty sure that they are vernal pools no matter what the county told my real estate agent. But I will be watching this spring to see what pops up around them and in them. It will be very interesting to monitor them. They are mostly on the east side of the property and seem to meet the requirements for a vernal pool which I found on line at the California Wetlands Information System:
"Vernal Pools are seasonally flooded depressions found on ancient soils with an impermeable layer such as hardpan, claypan or volcanic basalt."