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The Sierra Nevada: Of the Parasitic and Fallopian
save yourself I was weary from my life at sea level, and so took to the mountains a couple weeks ago for a writing retreat offered through San Francisco State’s Sierra on Highway 49 between Sattley and...
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Indian Pipe: Not for Smoking
Another parasitic plant! Add this one, Monotropa uniflora (commonly called any of these variously wonderful names: Indian pipe, ghost plant, or corpse plant) to the growing list with Orobanche cooperi...
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A Mooch on the Muir Trail
Down one switchback after another. I was a bit brokenhearted. Spiritually suffering. We had turned off the John Muir Trail – our lifeline for the past ten days — about a quarter mile back. The junction...
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Cassiope, precious
There are lots of beautiful wildflowers along the John Muir Trail. It’s a wilderness that requires a permit for humans to enter, and there was heavy duty snowfall into mid-June this year. So of course...
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