Upcoming Lichen Worskhop at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont – February 2025
Have you been interested in learning more about lichens? Join me, my partner Jason Hollinger (lichenologist and photographer) and John DiDiego (Tremont’s Education Director) in a weekend long lichen workshop – one that integrates lichen taxonomy and ecology with lichen poetics. The workshop is being held on Valentine’s Day weekend – and lichens are the […]
Dark Mountain Project: Book Review of “The Lichen Museum”
Last year, artist A. Laurie Palmer, in coordination with University of Minnesota Press “Art after Nature” series, published the magnifident little book The Lichen Musuem. There are alot of books about lichens, but most of them are scientific or pop-science oriented. The Lichen Museum is different – it is philosophical, it is about social change, […]
Lichen Exploration Workshops
Lichenologist Laura Boggess and I have been exploring new ways of introducing people to the world of lichens – ways that weave together both the scientific and the poetic: lichen taxonomy and social change, lichen ecology and being human in these times.
Lichen Yoga in the California Alpine: Yoking the creative and scientific parts of self
Lichen taxonomy is really exciting to some people. And I’ll be honest, I’m not one of them. I prefer the meta-stories — ones about how land and climate barriers have propelled speciation into many divergent paths, how species assemblages shift along different environmental gradients, and ways in which the lichen symbiosis can inform a more […]
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Day 5
Our last day. In the morning there are a few brief sprinkles, and dark clouds everywhere. I hear two thunderclaps, and Marvin is shaking with nerves. We reluctantly decide to bail on the route.
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Day 4
Longest day, distance-wise. Wander up, following creek part of the way. Find some Claytonia. Top off our water at a snow pack near the top of the slope. It is late enough that we can divert enough flow to fill our bottles relatively quickly.
