Search results for query: *

There's more species of ferns here than I know the names of. I'm getting a little better.

Mario, those polyploid ferns, leather backs you called them, do not sap off the tree. They start, develop and live solely in the duff that builds in the nooks and crannies of the old trees. It's all symbiotic between them.

As is it can persist for many hundreds of years. An then an epic flood can wash it out the mouth of the Eel River this year. Though not likely with the current drought going on.

Here's a tree in the Rockefeller forest that first caught my eye in the mid 70's. I've walked by it many times and knew that one day it would go to its lean across Bull Creek. Well, on our last walk through Rockefeller Forest Terri and I were surprised to see that the tree had met its fate...