Lichens are sort of dismissed as that stuff that grows on trees and to
the casual observer, it all looks the same.

As a life long naturalist, I was never quite so casual about it but was
surprised to lean how many species can be found just in our local area.

js

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On 3/5/07 7:30 PM, in article , "Jack Schmidling"
wrote:

Lichens are sort of dismissed as that stuff that grows on trees and to
the casual observer, it all looks the same.

As a life long naturalist, I was never quite so casual about it but was
surprised to lean how many species can be found just in our local area.

js


Great shot!
C