Chapter Zero

It is a bit late to begin this, with over a hundred observations posted, but I'm learning about the potential of this site just now. I have two main locations to upload from previous travels. Three visits to the Galapagos Archipelago from 2004-2010, and one to the Bolivian Amazon on a three day visit to the Yacuma River in 2006. The photographic volume of these trips is overwhelming, and I will upload them as I have time. Other minor sites include Field Mycology Courses in Colombia with a group from Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin to Murillo, another course with SUNY Cortland at Raquette Lake in Upstate NY, and a course at Eagle Hill in Southeastern Maine. Also are some random photos from the Caribbean Islands of Curacao, Aruba and Saba, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs Mississippi, excursions through the Spanish speaking South American countries, Clinton County in NY State, Southern Utah, Canada and currently around my home near Clear Lake in Thurston County, Washington State. Finally I am currently working on identification of the flora at the wildlife park Northwest Trek, where I worked briefly as a naturalist until COVID-19 hit. This last project is the first dedicated attempt I have made at a systematic study of flora. My aim is to be able to identify every plant and lichen that I can see. Beyond that I have no specific focus and will include flora and non-captive fauna as I come across them. NWTrek, in addition to being an excellent place to learn about charismatic megafauna, is also a microcosm of the plants and animals of the Pacific Northwest between Mt. Rainier and Puget Sound with easy photographic access due to the trails in the park.

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Posted on 02 December, 2020 07:58 by doppelganger doppelganger

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My front yard in Clearwood is flush with mushrooms every Spring and Fall. Two Amanitas, smithiana and pantherina, Russula brevipes, Russula xerampulina, heaps of Agrocybe praecox, Helvella and all kinds of LBMs. Today a surprise. 5 years ago I blended a Safeway bought portobello and poured the contents over the ground, which was Doug Fir litter mainly, but also with Red Alder and Madrone branches and litter mixed in, and fertilizer, over a cardboard base. Of course nothing happened, until now. Two Agaricus appeared looking very A. bisporous ish. That would be bizarre. However two feet from them is a raised bed garden that received several cubic feet of manure a few months ago. On the other hand, I have also had an A. campestris come up, although about sixty feet from where I poured the puree, so it might not be, probably isn't, a new portobello farm in the making.

Posted by doppelganger over 3 years ago

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