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Enlichenment

January 04, 2020 - Under normal circumstances, it should be bone-chillingly cold and white-blanketed, with all signs of life, save the hard...
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Boulder work

April 22, 2019 - The Virginia Rockbreaker gets its common name from what appears to be an odd way of crafting a habitat: look fast at the...
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Sound off

January 14, 2019 - Where summer nature walks are exercises in trying to sort through chaos, winter treks are the polar opposite. There's si...
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False alarm

April 06, 2018 - The Weather Channel, of course, was humming with the "potential" for yet another nor'easter bringing dire consequences t...
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Fairy cup

January 23, 2018 - Among the many natural history tasks on my to-do is this one: learn the lichens. It's actually been there for a long tim...
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On the rocks

December 11, 2017 - To say that I don't know my lichens would be one of the vastest understatements in natural history; to say that I should...
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Rainy day lichens

November 30, 2016 - The rain continued—a blessing, to be sure—as did my cold—a curse, without a doubt—but as the storm abated, I decided to...
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Not quite a true name

April 12, 2016 - The Virginia Rockbreaker, an extra hardy wildflower that grows with the local mosses and lichens on a roadside rock face...
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At the summit

June 26, 2015 - It was a relatively fine day for a hike, and I didn't have to do much convincing to get my nephew Lucas and my granddaug...
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In the company of lichenologists

September 20, 2014 - Sometimes, I somehow manage to get incredibly, incredibly lucky. Today was certainly one of those days, a Saturday morni...
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