Plants of the Ohio Valley, Southeast and Cascadia
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Winter hasn’t quite released its grip on the Ohio Valley yet. Snowfall yesterday and frost this morning. I guess that’s good though, because last Winter was unusually warm here. Folks were telling me that it was about 84 around this time last year and that the honey locusts were flowering (They usually do that in June).
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Here’s a challenge:
What can y’all identify in this picture of a Northwestern Forest?
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The Largest Trees on Earth - California’s Disappearing Redwoods
When gold was discovered in north-western California in 1850, thousands crowded the remote redwood region in search of riches and new lives. Failing in efforts to strike it rich in gold, these men turned toward harvesting the giant trees for booming development in San Francisco and other places on the West Coast. These trees are the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth. The size of the huge trees made them prized timber, as redwood became known for its durability and workability. By 1853, nine sawmills were at work in Eureka, a gold boom town established three years prior due to the gold boom. At that period of time, redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres of the California coast.
After many decades of unobstructed clear-cut logging, serious efforts toward conservation began. In 1918, the Save-the-Redwoods League was founded to preserve remaining old-growth redwoods. By the time Redwood National Park was created in 1968, nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged. Today there is only 133,000 acres of redwood forest left.
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The current along the Pacific Coast can pick up some crazy things.
Giant driftwood on the beach at La Push, Washington (2010)
this made me feel really uneasy, the ocean is terrifying.
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Off to the woods today.
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Mt. Saint Helens and Takoma.
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Takoma and lupines.
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Cordyceps Capitata (by sporeprints)
Fungi of the genus cordyceps are best known for parasitising insects. In Cascadia they attack tasty truffles as well and false truffles both there and here in the South as well.
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Cutleaf Toothwort. Dentaria lacinata.
This is what it looks like when first emerging from the leaf litter as they are currently doing here right now. The buds on the top will open up within the next two weeks into a showy cluster of white flowers.The roots can be used like horseradish.Photo from Wikipedia.
