Root Trail, McCarthy Day 2, 9/6/14

Weather: Temperatures in the mid 40’s to low 50’s with heavy cloud coverage. Rain showers early with scattered patches of sun. Winds less than 10 mph

Plants:

·         Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum)

·         Feather moss (Hypnaceae)

·         Frog Pelt Lichen (Peltigera neopolydactyla)

·         Sieve Cup Lichen (Cladonia multiphormis)

·         Artic Lupen (Lupinus arcticus)

·         Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)

·         Red Alder (Alnus rubra)

·         White Spruce (Picea glauca)

·         Wild Roses (Rosa nutkana)

·         Bearberry (Arctostaphylos)

·         Crow berry (Empetrum nigrum)

·         Spiney Puffball Mushroom (Lycoperdon echinatum)

·         Winter Pink Pyrola (Pyrola asarifolia)

·         Green Wintergreen (Pyrola chlorantha)

·         Prickly Saxifrage (Saxifraga tricuspidata)

·         Waterworm Lichen (Siphula ceratites)

·         Soapberry (Sapindus)

·         Rushes (Juncaceae)

·         Poplar (Populus balsamifera)

·         Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera)

·         Sub-alpine fir (Abies lasicopara)

·         Horsetail (Equisetum)

·         Alder (Alnus)

·         Junipes (Cupressaceae)

·         Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)

·         Mistletoe (disambiguation)

·           Dryas (Dryadoideae)

·           pixie cup lichen Claudonia chlorophaea

·           yellow sulfur lichen

·           broomrape/groundcone Boschniakia rossica

·           scouring-rush Equisetum hyemale

·           dandelion Taraxacum officinale

·           northern yarrow Achillea borealis

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Animals:

·         Moose Alces alces

·         Gnats

Other:

·           Gravel

·           Glacial till

·           Karst

·           Kennecott Mill

·           Lateral Moraine

·           Wrangell St. Elias Mountains

·           Chugach Mountains