Bryophytes with Ed Schwartzman at Cliffside September 18, 2015

Cliffside Lake / Dry Falls with Ed Schwartzman

Cliffside Lake was a beautiful location for our second foray into mosses and liverworts.

Ed again started the day by saying he's not an expert on bryophytes and immediately began to overwhelm us with his knowledge - and enthusiasm.

He helped us see and understand the complexity (and wonder) of these nonvascular plants.

Dry Falls of course was spectacular with its unusual and rare mosses / liverworts.

Thanks to Ed for another wonderful day - and to Karen for capturing it in her beautiful photographs.

Bazzania trilobata

Connecticut Beech Fern

Dry Falls

Ed finding mosses

Ed

Elen and Jean examining mosses

Ginny and Henry looking at moss

Henry

Jean examining a bryophyte

Brent and Bryophytes

Lizard Skin Liverwort

Mountain Spleenwort Fern

Orange Lichen and Falls

Pincushion Moss

Spaghnum Moss

Spleenwort and Liverwort

examining the stump for mosses

Ellen, Henry and George

Ed and Ellen

Cliffside and SAPS with Ed

Ed finding mosses

Ed and instruction

rare bryophyte

moss and liverworts under the waterfall

Henry and Dry Falls

Dry Falls

Dry Falls

Dry Falls and many plants

Joyce Kilmer National Forest with Dan Pittillo and Ila Hatter - July 20, 2015

Our leaders; Dan and Ila

Background and history

explanation

Painted Trillium fruit

Getting ready to hike

Hannah joined us

Ila brought yummy snacks

Little Santetlah Creek

Little Santetlah Creek

Big rock in Little Santetlah

Up we go

Yellow Birch Tree

Dan's photo with the Old Chestnut Tree....more to come about this from Dan from the past.

Here they are:

 Downed & decaying chestnut at site likely described by E. Lucy Braun's 1950 book as 70% chestnut cove hardwood forest

Clair Newell's plot view uphill just below wildflower burn Nov 1999 

Clair Newell's second growth plot before fire; diverse ground seedlings likely product of birds roosting in trees and dropping seeds, in June 1995 

 Denton footpath above wildfire burn Nov 1996 

Large downed chestnut just below Denton footpath 1995 

Chestnut log in 1999 with dendrology class 

                                       

- Rich Cove site above plaque where groups split for bushwacking or Poplar Cove 

Tsuga canadensis in 1996; died 2000 and topped soon afterward by USFS fearing injury to visitors