Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Day 1
We packed up carefully in the early morning and headed into Cottonwood Basin. All limestone up here. Saw a coyote right at the start, “leading” us to the start of the ridge descent
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Setting up
We drove both vehicles to the Trail Canyon trailhead and camped near there in a lovely spot in a Pinyon-Juniper woodland. Very intimidating thunderstorms were looming all along the White Mountains and ranges to the east. We decided to delay for a day in Trail Canyon, and stay in Cottonwood Basin the following day.
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Intro
The White Mountains of California / Nevada are the little known younger sister of the High Sierras.
Common Alpine Lichens of the High Sierras – California
What are the common alpine lichens found in the High Sierras of California? This handy six page guide just might answer that question. Jason and I made it for naturalists, alpine enthusiasts, and citizen scientists, with the hope that it will be helpful in field identification of common alpine lichen species or species groups. Rarity […]
Radical Mycolology – and Radical Lichenology – finally released!
After over two years of hard work, Peter McCoy has published Radical Mycology, an amazing text on how to see and work with fungi. And I wrote the Fifth chapter – Radical Lichenology. It was a personally transformative chapter for me to write because it is the first time that my myriad of interests in […]
Finally! The manuscript for the Lichens of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is being written…
After three years of field work in Argentina, Chile, the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, and the Great Basin Desert of Nevada, we’re finally making the time to publish the Turnbull NWR lichen inventory. The manuscript is going to be more bare boned than we’d imagined it at the beginning of the project, but Jason and I […]
