California wildfires along with climate change destroying lichen, a critical forest resource.

California’s increasingly severe wildfires could be permanently destroying vast amounts of lichens — fuzzy, leaflike organisms that grow on trees and rocks.

https://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/2018/08/09/california-fires-destroying-lichen-critical-forest-resource/952550002/

Posted on August 10, 2018 12:30 PM by biohexx1