Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels (some sources call them Sierra Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels) are not rare, but it was only a couple…
I spent a good chunk of yesterday unsuccessfully trying to identify a moss I had thought would be relatively easy.…
Since I’m hanging out indoors today while snow falls steadily, covering every exposed horizontal surface, I thought I’d look back…
I’m not happy to be making this post with ‘possibly’ in the title, although I feel fairly comfortable calling this…
When I wrote about Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus last month I mentioned that it added chaos to the texture of the forest…
Peltigera canina is the type species for this genus, and many tomentose Peltigera utilizing Nostoc cyanobacteria as a photobiont have…
In 1984 (Nakasone/Burdsall), based on morphology, this species was shunted from Merulius into the genus Phlebia, a move which some…
Peltigera collina is most often found decorating the bark of trees. It is the most common epiphytic Peltigera, and is…
Kindbergia oregana is a very common forest floor moss west of the Cascades in coniferous and mixed woodlands. It forms…
This is a very common lichen on dry rocks. It is so common that it has engendered a rarity; a…