Chuck,
Latin name is usnea. It's kind of terrifying stuff, since it appears
to gobble up trees, and although we didn't have much cloud or fog,
even without it it's spooky and eery. One of the unexpected pleasures
of the trip was hiking around with a chemist by profession who was a
biologist by avocation. He was like a kid at Disneyland on Isle
Royale and noted that the presence of so much healthy old man's beard
indicated that the air is very clean up there.
Thanks,
Joel W.
On 2/22/07, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Very nice. I also got a surprise seeing the "Old Man's Beard" lichen.
> Previously I've only ever seen it in South Florida and assumed it was a
> Florida native.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
> > I was shamed by Ag Schnozz last weekend into getting my Isle Royale
> > photos from last September's photo adventure webbed out:
> >
> > http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
> >
> > List Personality Highlight: Bill B. inside the fateful canoe.
> >
> > All E-1 with either DZ 15-54 or 50-200. Several extra wide in the
> > Scoville Pt. gallery were taken with Bill's DZ 7-14 (thanks Bill as
> > always).
> >
> > Most of the macro-ish photos (flowers and plants, mainly) were made
> > with the 90/2 + OM adapter.
> >
> > Joel W.
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