In early May, about 8 months after the initial conflagration, I made my first trip into the devastation wrought by…
When I first saw this patch of moss, at Oxbow Regional Park along the Sandy River, during my weekly hike…
The other day, while waiting in her courtyard for a very nice, older client to put on her sweater, I…
A couple years ago, on one of my first moss walks, the leader pointed out a moss and said it…
There are a couple of reasons why I’m going to discuss the comedy of errors surrounding my identification of this…
This is a very common moss in the forests of our region, and a fairly recognizable one, once you’ve identified…
I spent a good chunk of yesterday unsuccessfully trying to identify a moss I had thought would be relatively easy.…
When I wrote about Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus last month I mentioned that it added chaos to the texture of the forest…
Kindbergia oregana is a very common forest floor moss west of the Cascades in coniferous and mixed woodlands. It forms…
There is much taxonomic and nomenclatural discussion still ongoing about this species. It has only been in the last 20…