I'm not a forest ranger either, but I'm pretty sure that red plant is sarcodes sanguinea, or snow plant. It's parasitic on the mycorrhizal fungi attached to tree roots. The ones in the photos seem to be just emerging, so they'll have flowers later but they aren't flowers now. If you don't have a Weird Plants section I don't see why the photos shouldn't stay where they are, though.

I can't look away from those photos. Those plants are doing a perfectly reasonable thing to survive in their environment; but they are both really pretty and SO WRONG.

P.