This likes the old roads where it is seepy and the elvation is higher.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Pretty sure I got this right. I know for sure I found Blasia on this road last year. There was so little here this year that I did not collect a sample.
Not so rare if you know where to look. I've found it in 4 different places in the Southeast Olympics now. All were at higher elevations on dry exposed unused logging raods. Sadly, a lot of this moss has been destroyed by road decommissioning.
I expect it was everyone at elevation on this road before they decommissioned it.
I see this in the snow from time to time. I hope someone can tell me what they are. This one was at about 3,300 feet in a clear cut area with tiny hemlock saplings..
Growing epiphytically on TSHE, this specimen had fallen to the forest floor.
F-TB03
Time: 1140
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Three red-belted conchs found growing on one P. menziesii snag stump.
70% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB02
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Lobster mushroom infection of R. brevipes poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes not parasitized by H. lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
F-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Short stiped white Russula poking through humus and P. menziesii duff. Neighboring R. brevipes parasitized by Hypomycetes lactiforum.
75% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
L-TB01
Time: 1254
Altitude: 287m
Sunny, dry, warm weather for past two months
Fruticose, tufted lichen grouped on south side of mature Pseudostuga menziesii. Sorediate podetia found bearing red apothecia up to 2 centimeters in height.
15% canopy: primarily Pseudostuga menziesii, Acer circinatum, Gautheria shallon
Cortex and Medulla +: K, P
She was playing dead in the middle of the trail. I moved her off the trial before my dog could step on her again.
In plain sight on a very popular trail. I'm surprised that no one picked it.
Hypholoma fasciculare, you know it's scary, It's got olive green gills and it will make you so ill, so listen up and be wary.
Toads and newts are somehow being killed by a new culvert. We removed these from the culvert. I don't know why the culvert is killing amphibians.
Are they sunning? There were many newts floating just at the surface at about 1pm. This is a little lake in the Olympics that does not get many visitors.
I saw many of these little frogs or toads by the trail where it runs along the river. I think they are babies.
