Lichens have been known to indicate air pollution levels for well over one hundred years. The levels of air pollution in certain areas preclude the existence...
tim gerk
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Apr 1, 2005 3:32 pm
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I recommend using such lists with caution. The groupings of species Tim Gerk displayed are not absolute, and vary with country/locality. For example,...
Jim Bennett
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Apr 4, 2005 2:49 pm
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I have to agree with Jim Bennet that Graphis scipta is a small crust, and easily overlooked, but I challenge anyone to locate anything more than a single...
Rich, Next time I'm in the Chicago area I'll start looking for G. scripta then. I find this hard to believe. And Opegrapha atra must be overlooked. It's even...
Jim Bennett
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Apr 5, 2005 12:48 pm
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In the "links" column I have added a link to Brodo's book LICHENS OF NORTH AMERICA by Lichens of North America, by Irwin M.Brodo, Sylvia Sharnoff and the...
Just read in our spring Wolf Road Prairie bulletin about a Northeastern Illinois University study of the glacial erratics at Wolf Road prairie. Eighteen "rocks...
Not all, but some geologist are like rock-climbers, whereas cryptograms and lichens get in the way of the real rock. It would seem to be a great opportunity...
Ken Klick
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Apr 19, 2005 2:52 pm
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I have e-mailed the wolf road prairie folks with the suggesion someone tag along to see if any lichen or moss are on the erratics. Haven't heard back from...
Hello all, This past weekend, I got a chance to wander around and do a bit of nature photography on top of a mountain near Irvine, Kentucky, and took a picture...
The picture of the lichen John took in Kentucky sure looks like Cladonia furcata to me. I can't see any squamules on the podetia in the photo, but that would...
There is a lichen hike at Wolf Road Prairie in westchester, Illinois. 31st street and Wolf Road - FREE Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the 31st Street...
Greetings: Our first lichens field trip this year will be held Sunday, May 22, at Glacial Park in McHenry County, Illinois. We will meet at 10:00 a.m. and...
Lichen field trip to GLACIAL PARK, McHenry, Illinois. May 22, 2005 CHICAGOLAND LICHENOLOGICAL SOCIETY Four members and two guests had a fine day of lichen...
Yes it's time for another outing!!!!!! Chicagoland Lichenological Society JUNE Field Trip Where: Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois. Approximately 30...
CHICAGO LICHENOLOGICAL SOCIETY DOINGS FOR JUNE: June 24 Bio-blitz URBANA, Illinois June 26 Joliet Jr. College hike JOLIET, Illinois July 24 Lichen trip KANE...
Directions to Kane County, Illinois FIELD TRIP SUNDAY JULY 24, 2005 10:00 TO 2:00 BRING HAND LENS AND LUNCH Corron Farm (owned by Campton Township, located...
Just a reminder I scheduled a trip out to St. Charles area in Kane County, Illinois for this Sunday 7-24. I already sent directions. If you want to attend,...
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Greetings: Our next field trip to explore lichens and other organisms in their natural settings will be held Sunday, October 9, at Lake in the Hills Fen State...
Hi all, I just added a photo on our photo page taken a few weeks ago in the south Cook County forest preserves. I think it's a fruiting lichen, something I...
Looks like Physica stellaris to me, or maybe a low pruinose P. aipolia. Quite common here. JB -- *************************** James P. Bennett Gaylord Nelson...
Jim Bennett
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Oct 20, 2005 8:22 pm
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I agree with Jim Bennet that it is Physcia stellaris (smooth, bluish- green thallus in center of photo with apothecia) I also see at both right and left of P....
Just wanted to say hello - I'm a new member of the group. We attended Richard Hyerczyk's recent presentation about lichens in Hyde Park and would be interested...
Greetings all, I am a recent hire in the Chemistry department at Chicago State University and a nascent lichen lover. The purpose of this message is to...
I took this photo while on vacation in France in December. http://www.biophile.org/pix/2005_12_30/Besancon,France-Lichen.jpg This was at a restaurant stop...
peterchen60563
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Jan 16, 2006 7:04 pm
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There are at least 2 lichens in this picture. The grey-green one is parmelioid, perhaps a Parmotrema? There isn't enough detail to tell. There don't appear to...
Jim Bennett
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Jan 17, 2006 7:14 pm
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Peter I don't know the range of some lichens, but could the gray foliose one in left hand corner be Parmelia sulcata?? Yellow ones Candelaria??? If the photo...
Hello all, I've received a few messages requesting an update on my proposed lichen air-quality monitoring project. Presently, the project is still in the...
This is a list of lichens I have found in a park in Chicago (Jackson Park along Lake Michigan for those who know the city). Can anyone comment as to whether...
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